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...they see Barak giving empty ultimatums. Why shouldn't Arafat keep fighting? He has the Security Council, the Western media and the Arab world behind him. In front of him lies an Israel in shock, dazed and confused by the Barak paradox. No dove ever wanted or pursued peace more fervently. And what does he get? War. Neville Chamberlain was equally perplexed on Sept...
...past two weeks. Israel's Arab minority rioted in the Galilee and in major cities like Jaffa and Haifa. Jewish mobs responded with attacks of their own. "Coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Israel has started to collapse," says Salah Tarif, a Druze Arab member of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's One Israel party...
...Saturday evening Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak spoke to TIME senior writer Lisa Beyer by phone from his private residence in Kochav Yair, north of Tel Aviv...
...Ehud Barak can't make peace if he's not in power, but he can't stay in power if he continues to make peace. That basic dilemma explains the Israeli prime minister's decision over the weekend to flash-freeze the process and even moot plans to fence off the Palestinians into Israel's own idea of what their mini-state ought to look like. The suggestion may have prompted Yasser Arafat to tell the media that Barak could "go to hell," but the Israeli leader's reconciliation efforts right now are directed not at the Palestinians...
...Barak's decision may have, ironically, created some political cover for Arafat, too. The Palestinian leader was always going to struggle to keep talking to an Israeli government whose security forces have killed an average of almost five Palestinians a day for the past 26 days. Now Arafat, too, has an opportunity to shore up his credentials on the seething Palestinian streets, which had grown openly hostile to his peacemaking efforts in recent weeks. That's a game the Arab League states are playing, too, using their weekend summit to appease their enraged citizenry with ritual denunciations of Israel...