On Pause: U.S. Pulls Back

(New York Times) Steven R. Weisman - The Bush administration's involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, and its willingness to push either side, is at a low ebb. Administration aides say a kind of hiatus has settled in, primarily because the Palestinian leadership is in disarray and the Bush administration has declined to talk with the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. "On the Palestinian side, there is no one to talk to," one official said.


2003-10-16 00:00:00

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