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...with the committee at the Grand Hotel. The Little Dinner, as it's called, is a chance "for a face-to-face, heart-to-heart talk," says St?lsett. "The laureate knows he has our respect - so it's fun." The most memorable Little Dinner was in 1994, when Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin broke bread together. They talked "like old friends," recalls Lundestad, "about Jerusalem, block by block, who lived where, about the city's past, about its present situation...
...been in Belarus for less than 20 years from publishing literature or setting up missions. MIDDLE EAST Courtroom Rage Scuffles broke out in court between the families of Israeli victims of terrorist attacks and Palestinian spectators at the trial of Marwan Barghouti. Israel accuses Barghouti, head of Yas-ser Arafat's Fatah faction in the West Bank, of leading a militia that allegedly murdered 26 Israelis. A woman whose daughter was killed by Palestinians said Barghouti was a vampire who took "the blood of Jewish children." Before being led away he shouted: "We will be victorious over the occupation." Meanwhile...
...Israeli military operation, dubbed Matter of Time, was launched in response to two new Palestinian suicide bombings. By late Saturday night, the Israelis had ripped down all but a small section of Arafat's office building and planted Israel's flag after removing that of Palestine. Over loudspeakers, the Israelis demanded that a small group of what they claimed were terrorists vacate the building, even as their army continued to demolish what was left of the compound and hundreds of Palestinians began massing in the streets of Ramallah to protest Israel's tightening siege...
Four hours after the Tel Aviv attack, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and senior military and intelligence officials. Sharon argued, as he has before, that Arafat should be forced into exile. But Ben-Eliezer and most of the other officials spoke against exile, believing it would give Arafat new life and a ready excuse for his inability--or refusal, as Israelis see it--to rein in militants. At 6:30 p.m. Sharon convened a meeting of his Cabinet and announced a plan to isolate his old enemy but not exile or kill...
...Arafat, who said he would die a martyr before surrendering, has escaped desperate situations before, and he relies on such David-vs.-Goliath moments to boost his popularity with ordinary Palestinians. But last week, penned in by his enemy and with even his own followers questioning his position, he looked more like a frail man surrounded by rubble than the builder of a future state. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Jerusalem and Aharon Klein/Ramallah