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Looking For Allies ISRAEL Two of the Middle East's oldest enemies, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, found a rare bit of common ground last week. It came when Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided not to indict Sharon and his son Gilad, despite prosecutors' recommendation that the Prime Minister should stand trial for allegedly accepting bribes from a real estate tycoon. That ruling opened the way for Sharon to expand his minority coalition to include, at least potentially, the dovish Labor Party. Sharon wants Labor onboard to help push his plan for a withdrawal...
...player for much of the year, Broadbent beat then-No. 2 Julian Illingworth of Yale and No. 3 Bernardo Samper of Trinity in back-to-back matches in the team championships. He then advanced to the finals of the CSA Individual Championships before falling to No. 1 Yasser El-Halaby...
...peace deal based on the 1967 borders. Sharon, however, developed his own version that cut the Palestinians out the equation altogether, and envisaged the Gaza withdrawal as an alternative to proceeding with the U.S.-backed "roadmap" toward a comprehensive settlement. Sharon has insisted that the Palestinian Authority, led by Yasser Arafat, is not an acceptable interlocutor, and therefore that there is no Palestinian partner with whom Israel can negotiate agreements - a position to which has been partially endorsed by the Bush administration...
...previous withdrawals from parts of the West Bank and Gaza, under Oslo, had been undertaken on the basis of painstakingly detailed security agreements reached with the Palestinian Authority. But Sharon's plan envisaged no such deal, partly because of his reluctance to resume negotiations with a body led by Yasser Arafat, and partly because there are good reasons to doubt whether the PA today has capability, much less the political will, to rein in those who would fire on Israelis. The leadership under Arafat is unlikely to see much to be gained in helping implement a plan designed explicitly...
...said to fear that such attacks would anger supporters in the gulf who bankroll Hamas clinics and youth clubs but don't want to be seen as backing attacks on the U.S. Hamas sources tell TIME that some local leaders are threatening to join with malcontents from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction to form splinter terrorist cells that could go after U.S. targets. As the top power in Hamas, Meshaal will have to decide how to deal with the hotheads. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad