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...political beliefs, and they're unlikely to be comfortable with the same Kim Dae Jung as a popular South Korean president elected on promises of pursuing reunification with the Stalinist holdout to the North. Some Bush people were even whispering a comparison to Israel's deposed prime minister Ehud Barak, suggesting that Kim was pursuing peace with undue haste. Still, while the Bush mantra on the Middle East has been (as a corrective to Clinton) "We can't want peace more than the parties themselves," on the Korean peninsula they may be in danger of finding themselves wanting peace less...
...Sharon says he wants to pursue peace with the Palestinians, although he's made clear that he won't pick up where Barak left off. So what can we expect from the new government on this front...
...reduce tensions along the last Cold War frontier. But President Bush and his advisers were plainly not going to sign their Korea policy over to a South Korean dove whose haste to pursue peace has some U.S. officials inclined to compare him to Israel's former prime minister Ehud Barak...
...Gaza and allow Palestinians to return to jobs in Israel, but not until the violence stops. There are positive signs from the Palestinians that if Sharon takes a few confidence-building measures, that may help them climb down from the branch onto which they've hauled themselves. When Barak came to power, Arafat wanted tangible things, like the withdrawal of troops from some land and other small measures - he didn't want to have to go to Camp David and negotiate a final deal. And so with Sharon, too, Arafat may be more comfortable with a few concrete gestures that...
...careful to emphasize that he wants dialogue. But that dialogue is unlikely to be a continuation of the Oslo peace process: While he's undertaken to abide by formal agreements signed by his predecessors, he's made abundantly clear that he has no intention of picking up negotiations where Barak left them, and that the Palestinians should disregard the offers made at the negotiating table by the previous government. In other words, the idea of a comprehensive and final peace agreement with the Palestinians, which proved so elusive to Barak, has now been shelved...