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...fund-raiser who has raked in millions of dollars for the Democratic party during the past eight years. Rich's lawyer in the pardon case, Jack Quinn, was once Clinton's general counsel. Quinn personally lobbied Clinton, and various dignitaries - including, sources tell TIME, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and King Juan Carlos of Spain - contacted Clinton on Rich's behalf...
...Less visible were Marc Rich's allies in Israel, where his foundation has donated millions of dollars to museums, hospitals and the resettlement of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews. Sources tell TIME that Barak, taking a break from the stalled Middle East peace negotiations, spoke with Clinton several times to vouch for Rich's "humanitarian role in Israel." Other VIPs, including Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert and former Mossad head Shabtai Shavit, also wrote letters on Rich's behalf. Shavit said Rich "used his extensive network of contacts" to help Israeli intelligence. In all, Clinton received more than 20 personal letters, some...
...Barak's electoral hopes suffered a further blow earlier this week with the murder of two peacenik Israeli men who'd gone with an Arab friend to a restaurant in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, before being dragged out by masked gunmen and executed. The killings left Israel's "peace camp" angry and depressed, and diminished the appetite of rank-and-file Barak supporters for pursuing an agreement with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. And whether they want it or not, after February 6 they're likely to get an effective time-out from the peace process. A time...
...Prime Minister Ehud Barak's statement Thursday that a peace agreement was unlikely before Israelis go to the polls on February 6 was a masterful understatement. Right now, opinion polls show that whether or not Barak cuts a new deal, he'll be comfortably beaten by arch-hawk Ariel Sharon on election day - and that would reduce any new deal to no more than a chronicle of what might have been. Because while Barak has thus far failed to tempt Arafat to accept 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, as well as a patchwork of Jerusalem...
...many observers believe that the talks in the Sinai resort of Taba are mostly for the consumption of Israeli voters. The Palestinians are throwing Barak a lifeline, realizing that progress toward peace is his only hope of holding off the Sharon challenge - and they also don't want to be painted as spoilsports in U.S. eyes. For Barak, keeping the talks going may be a frantic effort to persuade Israeli-Arab voters (about 20 percent of the electorate) to go to the polls and vote for him. It was the withdrawal of Israeli-Arab support that cost Shimon Peres...