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...city captured by Israel in 1967 has sparked a region-wide fire that could torch much of the progress all sides have made thus far. The current violence illustrates just how untenable the deal on Jerusalem offered by Israel at Camp David would be for Palestinians, and yet Barak will likely be forced now to retreat from even that offer...
...greatest weakness of current efforts to put the peace process back together is that they depend on both Arafat and Barak being able to muster the political support necessary to turn the political tide on both sides of the divide. And in both cases, that may be a tall order. Barak's domestic political weakness is forcing Barak to act tough, and he's now considering a unity government with the Likud party who've opposed the peace process all the way. And the mounting violence between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is a frightening portent of the drift...
...commits to it, he'll find it increasingly difficult to rein in a Palestinian street long skeptical of the value of his negotiating efforts. The attacks over the Lebanese border by the guerrillas of Hezbollah on Saturday may be more of a headache for the Palestinian leader than for Barak. Ever since Hezbollah's victory was acclaimed throughout the Arab world in the summer after Israel withdrew from Lebanon, young Palestinians skeptical of Arafat's peacemaking efforts have admiringly cited its example. Arafat is facing a direct challenge from the Islamist militants of Hamas and also some degree of mutiny...
...Although Arafat and Barak are unlikely to pursue the path of war, they may struggle unsuccessfully to take the necessary steps back onto the path of peace. And Israelis and Palestinians may yet live for some time in the gray zone between...
...hustles whom, how? What's the game? Barak issues a bristling ultimatum: Arafat must stop all the violence by the end of Yom Kippur. Well, Barak does not say it that way; he says, "Forty-eight hours." Or else, Barak makes known, the full weight of Israeli military force will do the stopping...