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Several truths have been forgotten in the rush to restart the "peace process." We would do well to take a moment to recall how Yasser Arafat got us here.12:00 AM, Apr 11, 2002 • By FRED BARNESA WAVE of forgetfulness has engulfed the issue of Middle East turmoil between Israel and the Palestinians. Arab moderates whom Secretary of State Colin Powell visited this week, European leaders upset by Israel's conduct, the international media (including American reporters), United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, even Powell himself--all have been hit by memory loss. What they've forgotten is practically everything that preceded Israel's military incursion in the West Bank.
Read more... It's dangerous waters ahead for the war on terrorism.3:30 PM, Apr 10, 2002 • By ROBERT KAGAN and WILLIAM KRISTOLIN MILITARY TERMS, Palestinian terrorists are losing badly in the current Israeli operation to destroy the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank. Palestinian militants, far from welcoming martyrdom, as the American press insists must be the result of the Israeli offensive, are instead surrendering in droves to Israeli fighters. In the last couple of days, hundreds have surrendered in the West Bank town of Nablus and in the refugee camp of Jenin alone.
Read more... Yasser Arafat's odd man out in Jerusalem.Apr 15, 2002, Vol. 7, No. 30 • By EDWARD GROSSMANJERUSALEM
LAST MONTH IN East Jerusalem, a Harvard Ph.D. answered some of my questions fairly honestly and ducked the rest.
Dr. Sari Nusseibeh comes from a very old family in the Arab part of town, comparable maybe to the Saltonstalls in Boston. For ages there've been Nusseibehs at or near the top. His late father Anwar was mayor briefly during the time (1948-67) when Jordan ran the West Bank and half of Jerusalem, and was also both the late King Hussein's defense minister and his ambassador to London, where Sari grew up.
Read more... Why the West gives Yasser Arafat endless second chances.Apr 15, 2002, Vol. 7, No. 30 • By NORMAN DOIDGEHOW IS IT that the Bush administration, which is deadly serious in opposing terrorists and those who harbor them, could let Colin Powell declare last week--on the same day that senior terrorist Yasser Arafat was caught funding the Al Aksa suicide bombers--that Arafat is no terrorist at all? On April 4, President Bush asked Israel to halt its attacks on Arafat's terrorist infrastructure. What must be going on in their minds? Are they serious or aren't they?
Actually, they are serious about fighting terror. But they are also caught in a psychological bind that they do not understand.
Read more... Apr 8, 2002, Vol. 7, No. 29 • By ROBERT KAGAN and WILLIAM KRISTOLON THE EVIDENCE of the past couple of weeks, there's one person above all on the Bush foreign policy team whom we can trust to wage the war on terrorism effectively--without debilitating self-delusions, without crippling moral confusion, without self-defeating serpentine maneuvering, but rather with clarity, determination, and unwavering commitment to a few basic principles. The good news is that this person is George W. Bush. The bad news is that the president occasionally defers to his colleagues when he should trust his own judgment.
Read more... The E.U. is reluctant to defund Palestinian violence.Apr 8, 2002, Vol. 7, No. 29 • By ELI J. LAKEWHEN PALESTINIAN suicide bomber Abdel-Basset Odeh, a member of the Hamas military wing known as the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, walked into the Park Hotel in Netanya on the first night of Passover last week and blew himself up along with 20 Israelis, he probably did his own family a service.
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