Word: baraker
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...March 26, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad met with President Clinton in Geneva in a failed summit on peace in the Middle East. The Syrian leader has no plans to hold such a meeting with Israeli premier Ehud Barak. This diplomatic picture speaks a thousand words of Syrian intentions...
...vitriolic rhetoric that presses the Israeli public's most sensitive nerve. In recent weeks, the official Syrian press--the mouthpiece of the regime--compared the Jewish state to Nazi Germany and denied the Holocaust. To further alienate Israelis, Syria has stepped up support for the terrorist group Hezbollah. Barak has promised his people a referendum should he reach an agreement with his Syrian interlocutors, but these statements, coupled with Syrian-backed violence in Lebanon, harden the Israeli electorate against a peace treaty with Syria and make it increasingly difficult for Barak to sell a future peace to his own people...
...Palestinian homeland, to the recent rapprochement with Israel--goals that the Pontiff could not alter simply to wow an audience. The strictly spiritual stops on the trip were interspersed with so many loaded encounters, shifting on an almost hourly basis--If this is Thursday it must be...Barak? Holocaust survivors? The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem?--that the Pope seemed like an FBI trainee in one of those fake towns with the cardboard figures, each requiring a different response, popping up one after another...
...sometimes forgotten that the Vatican bears no direct responsibility for the Holocaust." Although the church had been "cruelly delinquent" in its response to the horror, "that moral failure, at least, the Pope's words today have done much to remedy." Perhaps most important, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, whose voice cracked as he talked of grandparents murdered at Treblinka, movingly hailed the Pope's statements, in effect accepting them as an apology...
...from the Golan Heights remains too fundamental to allow any movement. And while the two neighbors have for 26 years managed to avoid a war despite the absence of such an agreement, the latest impasse, together with the Israeli decision to withdraw from southern Lebanon - a promise that helped Barak get elected - has the potential to spark a new round of hostilities...