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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process on permanent hold. "It seems that the ripeness for a revolution was brief," says Ron Pundik, an Israeli negotiator at Oslo, "and the window of opportunity was open only temporarily." At 4 a.m. Thursday, after the tally turned decisively in Netanyahu's favor, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat issued orders to his aides not to comment on the outcome. "He knew that if they spoke, they'd express their frustrations, and that wouldn't be good for p.r.," said a senior adviser. Arafat was so demoralized that he canceled a day-after appearance on Good Morning America, conveying that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIGHT WAY TO PEACE? | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...Minister-to-be says he will respect the agreements but will give Israeli security forces "complete freedom of action" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to combat terrorism. That would violate terms of the government-signed accords that bar Israeli forces from operating in the autonomous areas under Arafat's control, encompassing most of the Gaza Strip and six West Bank cities, unless they are in hot pursuit of a fugitive. Returning Israeli troops to areas from which they have withdrawn, even for limited operations, would set them up to clash with the 30,000 men Arafat has under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIGHT WAY TO PEACE? | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...most in peril would be Arafat, whose credibility with Palestinians is hardly high enough to sustain further disappointments. He desperately needs proof that his peace concessions have not been in vain and would profit from fast-paced discussions on the territories' final status, but he faces a new Israeli government more intent on slowing everything way down. Says Souheil Natoor of the hard-line Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "Now the Palestinians are saying to Arafat, 'You did whatever the Israelis asked of you. And the result is the Israelis voted against peace.' The Palestinians will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIGHT WAY TO PEACE? | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Even if Netanyahu wanted to dance with the Palestinians, his campaign has put relations on a bad footing. He vowed he would never meet with Arafat, and his campaign ads sought blatantly to redemonize the P.L.O. leader. Then when he realized he could not even pretend to keep the peace process alive without the Palestinians' chosen interlocutor, he grudgingly conceded he might have to meet him after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIGHT WAY TO PEACE? | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...Wednesday evening, the night of the Israeli elections, and the atmosphere in the Gaza City home of Nabil Shaath is quiet and tense. About a dozen people have gathered to watch the returns. Most are top aides to Yasser Arafat. Shaath, the Palestinian Authority's Minister of International Relations and Development, negotiated the complicated arrangements for the staged Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza. As a member of the authority's six-member senior committee overseeing the crucial "final status" talks, he has just returned from Washington, where he and the Clinton Administration's top Middle East hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BREATHLESS IN GAZA | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

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