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...Sharm el-Sheik summit Bill Clinton held with Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Monday and Tuesday was supposed to get the combatants on the streets disengaged, the siege lifted and the peace talks started once again. The day after the summit, Barak pulled his forces back in some places and Arafat curbed some of the violence. But the fighting is flaring up again and the cease-fire is hanging by a thin thread. During her flight back Wednesday from the marathon Middle East talks, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sat down with TIME...
...Albright: It happens because he's smart and committed and because Prime Minister Barak wants to handle things himself. So it's elevated in some ways automatically to the head-of-government level. But the President is the master of the facts and he has a unique ability. And he's respected...
Yasser Arafat may be having a hard time keeping Palestinian militants in line with his latest cease-fire agreement, but Ehud Barak could find his own plans to tamp down the violence being second-guessed by Israeli settlers. With Israel's deadline for an end to the violence due to expire Friday amid the noontime Muslim prayers that have often touched off fresh waves of rage, the tenuous cease-fire reached at Sharm el-Sheik is under new strain following a firefight that raged into the night near Nablus Thursday. The incident, in which one Palestinian and one Israeli were...
...future of the settlers, of course, had been one of the outstanding sticking points in the peace process that could not be resolved at Camp David. The Palestinians want the settlements dismantled and removed from their territory, and Barak was set to propose instead an expanded bloc of settlements in parts of the West Bank adjacent to Jerusalem, in exchange for removing the others - or at least removing the settlements' Israeli military protection and offering them the choice of staying on under Palestinian jurisdiction or moving into Israeli territory. To be sure, the recent violence has highlighted a perception that...
...Wiesel explicated with a sweetness and urgency that made the question seem infinitely more interesting and immediate than the presidential question before us now. Breaking away from Hosea for a moment, Wiesel suggested that instead of talking politics, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Barak and Arafat, ought to sit down and study together...