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Israel's race to depart Lebanon could make life difficult for Yasser Arafat, because the spectacle of the Israeli army retreating under fire is emboldening Palestinian militants hostile to the peace process. Then again, Arafat is in no hurry to take the peace Ehud Barak is offering, and is happy to use the upsurge of violence on the West Bank to press for more concessions. "Palestinian leaders know from experience that outbreaks of violence create the pressure that forces Israel to make concessions," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "While the Israelis fear that the situation in the West...
...guerrilla outfit is being championed throughout the Arab world as the first army ever to liberate Arab territory from Israel by force of arms, but nowhere more so than among the Palestinian youths venting their frustration with stones and gasoline bombs. In response to their, and Hezbollah?s efforts, Barak at the weekend recalled his envoys from talks in Sweden designed to break the logjam in the peace process with the Palestinians and postponed a visit to Washington for talks with President Clinton...
...calm things down in the next couple of days because he doesn't want to create a momentum he can't easily stop." Meanwhile Arafat's chief negotiator, Yasser Abdel Rabbo, resigned Monday over the Palestinian leader's handling of the talks, while Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak faced a mutiny from key coalition partners over his plan to cede three West Bank villages on the outskirts of Jerusalem to Palestinian control...
...unlikely to reach agreement this year," says Hamad. "And sources close to Arafat say he's already agreed, at the urging of President Clinton, to postpone his promised unlilateral declaration of a state until after the U.S. election. Both sides are also having to deal with mounting domestic challenges. Barak faces defections from his coalition, while concern over the reaction of the Palestinian street and of his Arab allies makes it almost impossible for Arafat to accept the current Israeli proposals on the West Bank and Jerusalem." The "peace of the brave" of which Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin spoke...
...Israel in recent years has been its ability to guarantee security in Lebanon, which is subject to de facto Syrian military control, and allow Israel to end an occupation that's deeply unpopular with the Israeli electorate. But when talks broke down over the Golan issue, Prime Minister Ehud Barak decided to call Syria's bluff by unilaterally withdrawing from a war that was costing Israeli lives with little security benefit. That suited Hezbollah, which would with some justification claim to be the first army ever to have driven Israel from Arab territory. Instead of being reined...