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...This is something the Americans don't seem to understand. There's a real culture gap between the Americans, the Israelis and the Palestinians. None of them really understands the other two. For example, that deal to sell radar to China that Barak withdrew a few days ago - the fact that they'd even made that deal without taking account of American reaction is proof that the Israelis don't really understand America...
...sleeping arrangements: Clinton, like Carter before him at Camp David I, is staying at the four-bedroom Aspen cottage. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is in Dogwood, Arafat is in Birch, and the delegations all dine together in Laurel. The place is so spread out that some of the participants tool around in golf carts. One Aha! revelation: in 1978, Anwar Sadat stayed in Dogwood, and Menachem Begin was in Birch. Everyone's pondering the significance of this switcheroo...
...lame ducks and an ailing autocrat isn't much of a recipe for a peace deal - and the odds are lengthening against an Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough at Tuesday's Camp David summit. Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, joined President Clinton in the lame duck corner Sunday when his coalition collapsed following the walkout of three of his partners, forcing him to delay his departure for Washington Monday to face down a crucial no-confidence motion in parliament by a mere seven votes. But even before two religious parties and one representing Russian immigrants bolted in protest against Barak...
...Both Barak and Arafat are under pressure on the home front and have been forced to take tough positions in order to shore up their domestic support. Arafat over the weekend reiterated his intention to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state should a September 13 deadline pass without a final peace agreement. And Barak, just emerging from the near-collapse of his government coalition, again warned that Israel would retaliate by annexing land and suffocating the new state...
...while Arafat and Barak will show up in Washington next week, neither will be in a mood to compromise at the urging of a lame duck American president. Which means the chances of Bill Clinton's presiding over a final Israeli-Palestinian agreement are increasingly remote. Instead, Arafat will probably declare his state sometime between the election and the inauguration, the Israelis will retaliate, and the next U.S. president will be called on to referee a new phase of their increasingly complex clash...