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...move is calculated to play on Mizrahis' most basic beliefs: their faith in the power of the tzaddiks, their resentment of being discriminated against by European Jews and a knee that jerks to the right when it comes to the peace process. Shas quit the Cabinet in July because Barak wouldn't advise the party leadership of his plans for the Camp David summit with President Bill Clinton and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Barak's response was to call for a "secular revolution" that would end the Orthodox rabbis' lock on institutions like marriage and allow civil weddings. And though...
...particularly among the 60% of the population known as Mizrahis, who emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East. Though Ifargan has no official link to the Shas, the party has capitalized on that mystical faith to build the kind of political support that has brought Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government to the brink...
...news coverage. Yasser Arafat may have threatened publicly to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state if no deal was reached by the deadline, but off the record his aides have always made it abundantly clear that he won't tempt fate while the U.S. election season heats up and Ehud Barak's beleaguered government faces mounting pressure on its right flank. And the Israeli leader, whose immediate priority now is to simply survive in office when his parliament reconvenes in the fall, can't afford to allow relations with the Palestinians to collapse either. So Arafat and Barak will keep talking...
...Both sides have an overriding interest in avoiding a return to war, but neither one is capable of making the compromises the other side demands as a prerequisite for a final agreement. That means the window of opportunity for Arafat, Barak and Clinton to conclude a deal may now be shutting; but then again, the fundamental differences that continue to divide them may have fatally undermined any deal forced through under these circumstances. After all, compelling Arafat to concede on Jerusalem would imperil not only himself, but also pro-Western Arab governments from Egypt to Saudi Arabia who would...
...Kofi Annan and his summit are now being rapidly overshadowed by the countless bilateral meetings around town. Besides Iranian president Mohammed Khatami's unscheduled roundtable "Dialogue of Civilizations" and the Jiang-Fidel talks, President Clinton also plans to meet Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat, hoping to jump-start Middle East negotiations...