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Recent hopes for a Mideast peace agreement were shattered yesterday, as Israeli helicopters launched rockets at Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in retaliation for the killing of three Israeli soldiers by a mob of enraged Palestinians...
...Colin Powell at the State Department, and former President George Bush on the phone to his son in the Oval Office may seem a more reassuring bet in such a crisis than the continuation of an outfit that failed to prepare for this day and was relentlessly bamboozled by Yasser Arafat, the man responsible, more than any other, for the dangerous mess...
...there anyone anywhere who would trust Yasser Arafat with anything? After all these years, after so much jet fuel burned in shuttle diplomacy, so many Camp David charades, Arafat and the Palestinians have defaulted to their primary rage. The "Nakba" remains always in the mind. The Nakba is Arabic for "the disaster," the Israeli victory and independence in 1948. One people's miracle is another people's Nakba...
...Then there's Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese guerrilla movement that has previously demonstrated a capacity to operate abroad and has been expanding its influence among the Palestinian Islamist terrorist group, Hamas. The latter have refrained from attacking U.S. targets in the past, but with U.S. intelligence personnel guiding Yasser Arafat?s security forces in a crackdown on Hamas, it?s far from inconceivable that this policy would change. But there are a number of other Islamist terror organizations in the region, such as Egypt?s Islamic Jihad, that have both local grievances with the U.S. and the proven capacity...
...lynching in a dusty West Bank town may have not only dashed the fragile hopes for ending the current violence in the Palestinian territories; it may also symbolize Yasser Arafat?s increasing inability to rein in his own people. After two Israeli soldiers in the custody of the Palestinian police were beaten to death by a mob in Ramallah, Thursday, Israel ratcheted up the ante by firing rockets that destroyed the police station where its men had been held, and at targets in Gaza City, where Arafat was meeting CIA director George Tenet to discuss ways of ending the violence...