Word: barak
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...capital of Rabat to bid farewell to King Hassan II, who died of a heart attack Friday, President Clinton was careful to pay respects not only to the fallen king but to the cause of which Hassan had been a solid ally: Mideast peace. Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser Arafat met for about five minutes on Sunday for an insta-summit (the first meeting for the trio) that a White House aide would describe only as "animated." The issues are well known. But the low profile from Washington is understandable...
...admit it, but Yasser Arafat probably misses Benjamin Netanyahu ? because Washington?s love affair with Ehud Barak may put the Palestinian leader in an uncomfortable position. "We don?t accept this," Arafat said Tuesday after Barak and President Clinton agreed on a 15-month peace timetable that appeared to tie the stalled implementation of the Wye River agreement to the conclusion of "final status" talks with the Palestinians. Although Barak hastened to reassure the Palestinian leader that Wye would be speedily implemented, the issue highlighted Arafat?s political weakness. "Arafat can?t challenge Barak because he can?t afford...
...peace deal with Israel, and Arafat hopes that reconciling with them will isolate the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement, whose terrorist suicide attacks are the main threat to the peace process. But Hamas may not be feeling any urgency to strike. "They'll only feel the need to act once Barak and Arafat actually seal an agreement," Hamad says. Until then, they?re happy to watch the Palestinian leader sweat...
...what is he going to do when the suicide bombers come calling? President Clinton has plenty of grounds for optimism over the peacemaking intentions of Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, with whom he held further White House talks Monday following last week?s intense bonding. But with a new season of peace dawning between Israel and the Palestinians, Israelis are bracing for the inevitable backlash of bombing by the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement. "It?s logical to expect new terror attacks, because the peace process involves Palestinians' accepting Israel?s existence, to which Hamas is resolutely opposed," says TIME Jerusalem...
...threatened to derail the peace process. But Yitzhak Rabin had advocated "fighting terrorism as if there is no peace process and pursuing peace as if there is no terrorism," on the grounds that halting peace talks in response to terrorist attacks plays into Hamas?s hands. "Unlike Rabin, however, Barak agrees with Netanyahu that you can?t talk peace amid terror attacks," says Beyer. "Barak wants to maintain the incentive for Yasser Arafat to do his utmost to curb Hamas." But even Israel?s more muscular security services haven?t managed to completely eliminate the Hamas threat. Clinton plans...