Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palestinians had traveled for months, even years. "Hello?" Netanyahu said. "Happy Birthday." It was Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, calling to congratulate the Prime Minister on his 49th. "Is that really all you called for?" said Netanyahu. A few hours later, he had another surprise: flowers from Yasser Arafat. And a call from some Palestinian delegates: "May we both have a good year," they wished. Forty-eight hours later, after almost no sleep and two near walkouts, "Bibi" Netanyahu stood in the East Room of the White House, where he called Arafat his "partner" and signed a new pledge...
...West Bank. It firms up the details of the implementation of accords the P.L.O. and Israel had reached in 1993. Far tougher disputes remain, including the future of Jerusalem and the return of Palestinian refugees. According to the original timetable, all these must be settled by next May--when Arafat has threatened to declare a Palestinian state. But last week's accord, fought for and won over nine tumultuous days, created new momentum toward a permanent peace, the first such movement in 19 months. What Arafat called "a big step which came late" also opened the tantalizing possibility that Netanyahu...
After a White House send-off on Thursday, Oct. 15, Netanyahu and Arafat settled in at Wye. The two men actually didn't know each other well. Nor had Arafat ever met Ariel Sharon, the hard-liner Netanyahu recently named Foreign Minister. The hulking former general showed up two days late, sweeping into dinner, right past Arafat's gesture of welcome, refusing to shake hands or even look at the man he calls a terrorist and murderer. Instead Sharon focused on some Arafat aides with whom he has held talks this year. While he never did shake Arafat's hand...
...given the President some much-needed stature. Indeed, they're both such winners that Clinton is doing his best to link them: "If you were heartbroken when that young man was killed, if you were elated by the fact that these two people -- Prime Minister Netanyahu and Chairman Arafat -- were able to reach across this great divide... that means you know that we can't define our future by putting people down," he told a Bel Air fund-raiser Saturday...
...reversed his own ideological opposition to trading land for peace. Says Beyer, "Netanyahu can live with this deal because he knows he can get out of it by saying the Palestinians aren't doing enough to crack down on Hamas." Indeed, no one will be more surprised than Arafat if, 12 weeks from now, Israeli troops withdraw as scheduled...