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Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak scuffled jokingly 15 days ago so as to be the last one into Camp David for peace talks; on Tuesday they were jockeying to be the first to leave amid what appears to have been an acrimonious breakdown. Each man ordered up his motorcade as the parties parted company with only a vague promise to keep talking. And while Barak and Arafat take home the consolation prize of having shored up domestic political support by resisting pressure to compromise, President Clinton is left to contemplate a somewhat threadbare foreign policy trophy cabinet...
...Along the arbored paths of Camp David, over meals of steak and salmon or in their private cabins, every foreign policy heavyweight in the Administration, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, is hammering on those issues with the delegations of Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Failure is a very real possibility, and Ross, who will have to pick up the pieces, is keenly aware of it. But the U.S.'s top Middle East negotiator continues to search--in the words of his former boss Warren Christopher--for "glimmers of light...
...make it back to the Israeli-Palestinian summit in time for dinner. Disease, hunger and education in the Third World were formally on the agenda in Japan, but Clinton and other officials were peppered with questions about Camp David. The President generally kept mum, although he did reveal that Barak and Arafat "have not wasted the time" that he was gone. Other administration officials were introduced at press briefings as being "ready to answer all your questions - except about Camp David." Credit the White House with the first traveling, worldwide news blackout...
...geopolitical present tense (or tense present), and the Holy City appeared to be all that stood between the secular, terrestrial powers represented by Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat and an agreement to put behind them a brutal shared history of conquest, dispossession, terrorism and war. But even those pro-Western Arab regimes in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that have traditionally encouraged Arafat to compromise have backed the Palestinian leader to the hilt in demanding that the eastern portion of the city captured by Israel in 1967 - the part, incidentally, which contains all the above-mentioned holy sites - be handed...
...capitals to ensure that the Saudis, Jordanians, Syrians and Egyptians speak with one voice in insisting that no compromise be made on the demand for Palestinian sovereignty in East Jerusalem (except for the Jewish and Armenian quarters of the Old City and the Western Wall of the Jewish Temple). Barak, meanwhile, has taken flak back home for even offering Palestinians the limited authority in parts of East Jerusalem...