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Powell is pushing for early recognition of a Palestinian state, a firm time line for determining its borders and capital, and a strong U.S. statement on the thorniest issues. Rumsfeld and Cheney oppose an assertive American solution; instead, they want to give Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a freer hand to tackle Palestinian terrorists and leave tough final-status issues for well down the line. Bush has left it to his aides to fight over which of the two dramatically different approaches he will endorse. And fight they have. When Powell told an Arab newspaper that the Administration was leaning...
Somewhere, Ariel Sharon is smiling. The Israeli prime minister has plenty of reason to be pleased with President Bush's latest iteration of Mideast policy. On Monday, Bush declared that the Palestinians must elect new leaders if peace in the Mideast is ever to become reality. The speech may be controversial, but it won't do much to quell the violence in the region. For that, Bush must detail how he plans to balance Palestinian and Israeli concerns, while keeping Arab allies on board in the war on terror...
...continue launching terror attacks inside Israel, and Israel plans to keep its troops in Palestinian towns until such attacks cease. Even if the Israelis take the President's address as a green light to expel Arafat, nobody believes there's going to be any Palestinian reform as long as Sharon's forces are inside PA territory. Bush did call for Israeli forces to withdraw to the positions they held before the onset of the current intifada, but he didn't specify any timetable. And plans to have Secretary of State Colin Powell fly out immediately to the region to press...
...After Secretary of State Colin Powell's April trip to the region, the U.S. had hoped by this month to have convened a regional conference to promote a new peace. But that plan has been shelved - there is simply insufficient common ground between the Sharon government and all of the Arab moderates on the fundamentals of a two-state peace plan. They remain poles apart on the issues of the 1967 borders, the settlements, the refugees and the fate of Jerusalem...
...Part of the reason for the anticipation of Bush's now delayed speech was that moderate Arabs and other mediators have been waiting for Washington to firm up its own vision of two states living side by side. But that would force the Bush administration to disappoint Sharon and his considerable entourage on Capitol Hill, or else to disappoint the Arab moderates on whose support the U.S. must rely in its war on terrorism. Or, more likely, to disappoint both...