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...well be the theme song for Madeleine Albright's Middle East visit. Because like Messrs. Jagger and Richards she's trying to get Israelis and Palestinians to forget about what they want and start focusing on what it is that they need. But with both Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak answering to increasingly reluctant constituencies and with both sides having postponed the most intractable aspects of their peace process for the very end, Ms. Albright may well get no satisfaction. "She?s trying to hurry both sides along by telling them they?ll have to live with something less than...
...Oslo Accord had been that the topics on the table this week were too fraught to be tackled early on, and should be postponed to allow interim agreements to foster greater trust between Israelis and Palestinians. If anything, the reverse has been true, with the result that Arafat and Barak have to make an even greater leap of faith than the late Yitzhak Rabin made with the Palestinian leader at a time when their uniformed men are as prone to fire on each other as they were a decade ago, and their supporters are more vehemently opposed than ever...
...With Arafat threatening to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state by the end of the year, and Barak warning that Israel would retaliate with unilateral annexation of some West Bank lands, the Clinton administration may have to settle for medium-term damage control. The only relative certainty in the process is that the final outcome will be one that both sides accept grudgingly rather than gleefully. Perhaps that should be expected; after all, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is less of a marriage than a divorce...
Last Friday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak sat down with TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer for an exclusive interview...
...Palestinian negotiators resume talks aimed at completing a final, comprehensive peace agreement, hanging over them is a pledge made by Palestinian leader YASSER ARAFAT to declare a Palestinian state by year's end, with or without Israel's acquiescence. During his interview with TIME (see WORLD), Prime Minister EHUD BARAK revealed a position not unlike that of his hard-line predecessor BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. Barak says if Arafat unilaterally declares a fully sovereign state in all the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel would respond by unilaterally annexing Palestinian territories Israel wants to keep for itself, a move long avoided because...