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A Palestinian Verdict: Terror Worked

Khaled Abu Toameh August 25, 2005

The question on the Palestinian street now is who will successfully claim credit for expelling Israel from Gaza and northern Samaria – Hamas, an organization that carries out terrorist attacks, or Fatah, the official Palestinian ruling party?

Whatever the answer turns out to be, one thing is certain. Both factions are presenting Israel\’s withdrawal of settlers and troops from Gaza and the northern West Bank as a Palestinian military victory.

Assad Faces Trouble on All Fronts

Gil Sedan March 3, 2005

Syrian President Bashar Assad is confused and worried. The heat is on, and it\’s not clear he can take it.

Israel points a menacing finger at Syria for hosting terrorists, accusing it of enabling last Friday\’s deadly terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, which has been blamed on the Damascus-based Islamic Jihad.

Assad has said he wants to renew peace talks with Israel, but at the same time he wants to please his backyard radicals. In addition, anti-Syrian sentiment in Lebanon is sizzling; the United States and France are pressing Syria to withdraw from Lebanon; the United States is growing impatient with Syria\’s tolerance of Palestinian and Iraqi terrorists; Assad wants to appease the United States without losing his face with Arab hardliners; and Syria\’s longtime ally, Egypt, is toying with \”democracy,\” while Assad\’s own internal reforms are stuck.

So which way can he go?

Sharon Spurns Syria Peace Talks Push

Leslie Susser December 2, 2004

Syria\’s President Bashar Assad is proving to be as stubborn a character as his father.

But where Assad senior showed his obduracy by refusing to make concessions for peace, the younger Assad shows his by continually pushing for peace talks — or at least saying he wants them.

Obstacles Remain in Post-Arafat Era

Leslie Susser November 18, 2004

The post-Arafat era has begun with high hopes in Washington, London, Jerusalem and even Ramallah — but many of the obstacles that prevented peace in Arafat\’s day remain, and it\’s not clear whether any of the major players has the single-minded determination to make peace happen.

The United States is not as actively involved as it may have to be; the Europeans, who would like to be intimately involved, don\’t have the necessary political clout; the Israeli leadership, insulated by strong American backing and facing a recalcitrant right wing, sees no need to hurry, and the new Palestinian leaders, hamstrung by radical, violent opponents, may not be able to make concessions beyond what the late Palestinian Authority president countenanced.

President Bush gave an inkling of the ambivalence inherent in American policy after a meeting last week in Washington with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Terrorism Grows as Israeli Vote Issue

Leslie Susser January 9, 2003

This week\’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv has made terror even more of a central issue in Israel\’s upcoming election — and highlighted the major parties\’ different prescriptions for ending the violence.

The Settlers of Golan

Avi Machlis December 16, 1999

Emotions ranging from hope to uncertainty to anger fill the 16,000 Golan Heights residents as their fate is again the topic of Israeli-Syrian peace talks.
Negotiations resumed Wednesday in Washington, and residents here know that the price for peace with Syria is likely to be the return of all or most of the Golan, the strategic plateau Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.

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