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...July, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat seemed on the brink of bringing their people to lasting peace. Now, however, their people are on the brink of despair. We deeply mourn the loss of life that the past two weeks have brought, but we fervently hope that peace is still attainable. We urge all involved to work toward the common goal of lasting peace. We look to the students at Harvard to demonstrate a willingness to share this burden, instead of dividing themselves along the same divisive lines that are tearing apart the social fabric...
...join the chorus of world leaders in asking that Arafat and Barak, as well as the Israeli and Palestinian people, find the strength they need to continue to work towards peace. For Barak, the challenge will be to convince the Israeli public that unilateral action for peace, rather than escalating retribution, will ultimately bring harmony to the region. He should make sure that Israeli police and military forces act with care and only where necessary to protect Israeli citizens; he must also act to prevent the continued fraying of national bonds and the increasing conflict between Israeli citizens of Jewish...
...been held, and at targets in Gaza City, where Arafat was meeting CIA director George Tenet to discuss ways of ending the violence. By day?s end, Palestinian cities throughout the West Bank and Gaza were under siege by Israeli helicopters and tanks, the Prime Minister Ehud Barak was moving to establish a "national emergency" government with his hawkish Likud opposition. And Israeli and Palestinian spokesman were in agreement on one thing - the peace process was dead. Of course they typically hastened to add that it could be revived, but directed all blame for its demise at the opposing side...
President Clinton is currently attempting to organize an emergency peace summit between Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. (Please see Associated Press story, page...
...Barak knows that Arafat cannot stop it, then what's he up to? What are the two of them, Barak and Arafat, up to? What exactly was Sharon's game plan when he steamrollered onto the Temple Mount with a thousand cops and a retinue of television cameras? Agendas within agendas. Was there ever a place more filled with hate? The Balkans, maybe...