The President Surprises and Torments - 9/11

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:13:40 GMT

Sharon has become more realistic after seeing that his hope of using the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States as a means to isolate Arafat failed abjectly. The Arafat is bin Laden equation was rejected by the entire international community and by the U.S. administration as well. Worse, this week there were incipient indications of a worrying change in the approach of the United States to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The essence of the disagreement does not entail any temporary move or a particular issue - such as the attitude toward Palestinian terrorism - but the American conception of how to resolve the conflict.