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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (1117)12/8/2001 12:29:52 AM
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U.S. AND EGYPT IN DESPERATE TRUCE BID December 8, 2001

Ha’aretz reports: “As Yasser Arafat apparently faced a choice between a deadly civil war with militant domestic rivals, or an all-out conflagration with long-time nemesis Ariel Sharon, Washington and Cairo dispatched high-level diplomatic firefighters to douse smoldering blazes before they flared entirely out of control.

The United States and Egypt - crucial patrons, respectively, of Israel and Arafat's Palestinian Authority - have been instrumental in the past in cajoling the sides into accepting peace accords and truce agreements.

Sending in senior envoys of the caliber of Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher and ex-Marine General Anthony Zinni, the American and Egyptian presidents attempted a diplomatic pincer movement in an effort to apply irresistible force to two immovable objects, effectively double-teaming Sharon and Arafat

But the task has never before been so difficult, nor the threat of unbridled violence so grave. Israel, still mourning its heavy casualties in weekend Hamas suicide bombings, has unleashed a series of ominous warnings to Arafat, who saw his personal helicopters destroyed, his office nearly bombed, and his rule threatened in an unending parade of declarations by Israeli hard-liners bent on the demise of the PA chairman's tenure…”
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