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A
would rather delay. The trouble for
Sharon is that while the Americans
accept his package in principle, they dif-
fer over the purpose, timetables and
other key details.
riel Sharon counts President
Bush as a personal friend and
a supporter of Israel, but signs
Key Differences
indicate that Israel and the
For example, American officials see
United States may be heading for major .
Palestinian reform and an international
differences over Middle East diplomacy.
peace conference as a recipe for kick-
If there is a collision in the offing, it
may become apparent soon, because the starting substantive peace talks between
Israel and the Palestinians. Some of the
Israeli prime minister and Bush will be
officials now suspect that Sharon sees
meeting next week at the White House.
those elements as a means of buying
Monday's surprise announcement of
time and putting off meaningful dia-
the June 10 meeting comes as the Bush
logue with the Palestinians.
administration faces growing
By putting his ideas on the
international pressure to pro-
table,
Sharon may have inad-
duce a timetable and a detailed
vertently
set off a procesi lead-
set of proposals for getting
ing
inexorably
to a showdown
Israelis and Palestinians back to
with Washington.
the negotiating table and end-
The perception gap between
ing their conflict. Ironically,
Jerusalem and Washington was
ideas that Sharon initiated, and
apparent during late May and
which subsequently were
Prime Minister early June visits to the region
picked up by the Bush admin-
by William Burns, the U.S.
Sharon
istration, have brought to the
assistant secretary of state for
surface deep differences
Near
Eastern affairs, and
between Jerusalem and
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington on how to proceed
Director George Tenet.
in Israeli-Palestinian peacemak-
In a meeting with Burns,
ing.
Sharon argued that Arafat is
On the face of it, Sharon
incorrigible, and that as long as
seems to have been extremely
he is in power there is no
adept at getting his positions
chance of a cease-fire or of
across:
nt
Bush
Preside
political progress.
• Sharon convinced Bush
Arafat must be sidelined —
that Palestinian Authority
including him in the reform process
leader Yasser Arafat is part of the prob-
would be "a cardinal error," Sharon said.
lem, rather than part of the solution.
Burns countered that only Arafat
• Sharon's prodding finally led Bush
to declare his "deep disappointment" in , could give grass-roots legitimacy to the
reform process, and that if Arafat car-
the Palestinian leader.
ried out the necessary reforms he could
• Sharon persuaded the Americans
still be a player.
that the Palestinian Authority must
Sharon's close advisers acknowledge
undertake comprehensive reforms if it is
that
the prime minister's greatest fear is
to become a trustworthy neighbor to
that Arafat will take charge of the
which Israel can make concessions.
reform process, pretend to go along
• Sharon came up with a grand
with it, regain international support and
scheme for a regional peace conference
this summer, which has become the cor- whip up pressure on Israel to make
concessions.
nerstone of America's peace policy in
"The whole idea is to replace the Arafat
the Middle East.
system
of terror, corruption and internal
Yet now, it seems, all these ideas may
repression,
and it's obvious to us that -
boomerang on the Israeli prime minis-
Arafat
can't
change
the system he personi-
ter, forcing him into political moves he
fies," says Danny Ayalon, the prime min-
ister's foreign policy adviser and ambassa-
Leslie Susser is diplomatic correspon-
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