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Toasting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak last week, President Clinton reported that Barak had promised he would "not sleep a wink" until peace was reached in the Middle East. The hope: Israel at peace with all its neighbors before Clinton's term ends. Can Barak...
Despite the optimistic progress of peace talks in Washington this summer, fueled by the election of the supposed dove Ehud Barak, resentment, jealously and downright anger towards one's neighbors continues. These hard feelings are only exacerbated and fueled by the frustrations of performing daily tasks such as washing clothing and mopping floors with limited water...
...eagerly watch the overtures to peace progress this summer. Like everyone else here, I excitedly look forward towards a speedy withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, a meeting between Ehud Barak and Syrian President Hafez Assad and the declaration of a Palestinian state. But this excitement is tempered by the reality of the abject living conditions, which will probably prove the biggest obstacle to any real peace, especially in the hearts and minds of the people...
...Ehud Barak may be lauded in Western and Arab capitals as a champion of peace, but now that they've actually got down to dealing, the Palestinians have found they've bitten into a tough cookie. Barak and Yasser Arafat had a meeting Tuesday aimed at restarting the peace process, and the outcome was anything but positive. "The atmosphere in the meeting was tense and the gulf between the two sides? positions remains deep and wide," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Despite Arafat?s reluctant agreement to respond in two weeks to Barak?s proposal to delay land...
Domestic political constraints appear to be preventing Barak from implementing the land transfers, which would leave a number of Israeli settlements as islands in Palestinian territory. "Barak doesn?t want to create a crisis in his own government this early on, by moving against the settlers and possibly provoking some of his coalition partners to withdraw," says Hamad. "But this isn?t a new issue, and as far as the Palestinians are concerned, it?s an Israeli issue. Arafat, too, is under immense pressure from within his own ranks to deliver on the promises of the peace process." Adding...