K1A LONG HAUL WARRANTY ° , 5 STAR SAFETY RATING APR AVAIL. Diverging Agendas THE ALL NEW 2002 RIO AUTO, AIR Are Israel and the U.S. on a collision course? $1349p!,: 0 LESLIE SUSSER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem 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- D IVERGING AGENDAS on page 24 dent for the Jerusalem Report. 2002 SPECTRA 531 $11,490- 00 Stk. #K107 2002 SPORTAGE • sl OOQ AUTO, AIR, CD, CRUISE $18999* per mo. 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