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Just hours after the planned summit between the Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak went up in smoke Thursday, the real explosions went...
...Haram al-Sharif (called the Temple Mount by Jews) while the Israelis would have sovereignty over the Western Wall (the only remaining piece of the Second Temple). The proposal also calls for the resettlement of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Palestinian-controlled land rather than in Israel. And so Barak went back to Jerusalem to huddle with his cabinet and security chiefs, and Arafat went off to Cairo by himself...
...Clinton wants to hear back from both men by week's end, and his last best chance for a legacy of success in the Mideast may hinge on whether he can convince Arafat and Barak that this is their last best chance...
...would acknowledge the "Jewish connection" to the site. But the "connection" is that Temple Mount is believed by Jews to be the site of Solomon's temple, the center of the original Jewish universe. And conservatives in the Israeli parliament are loath to give it up, even if Barak is game...
...fact, any deal Barak brings home with a Palestine "entity" in it may be spiked; Arafat, meanwhile, says if he comes back without Haram al Sharif, militant Muslims will spike him. Clinton knows even two signatures won't mean a thing until a lengthy separation and stabilization process is begun and ended (that'd be George W. Bush...