Trending Topics
|
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49733-2003Sep9.html
U.S. Refuses to Pressure Israel on Arafat
(AP/Washington Post) - The Bush administration refused Tuesday to pressure Israel or to ease up on Yasser Arafat even if that meant blocking Ahmed Qurei from taking over as the new Palestinian prime minister. Offering no new plans and maintaining a minimum level of diplomacy, the administration is leaving it to the Palestinians to sort out a power structure that so far inevitably leads back to the blacklisted Arafat.