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Bill Clinton is out of office and Ehud Barak looks like he will be too in a matter of weeks. So why are Israelis and Palestinians suddenly engaged in a 10-day negotiation marathon...
...Well, there's conventional wisdom and there's what the insiders are saying. Conventional wisdom on both sides is that the reason is Ariel Sharon's peace plan, unveiled last week. Sharon looks set to trounce Barak in the election on February 6, and he made clear that he would offer the Palestinians only a fraction of what had been on the table at Camp David. So, this thinking goes, Arafat realized that if he didn't throw a lifeline to Barak, he'd end up with essentially what he has now and nothing more...
...other side of this equation, the thinking goes, Barak doesn't want to leave any stone unturned. Even though he's not optimistic about a deal and doesn't think it would do him any good at the polls, he's trying to get whatever deal he can. And he's taking a lot of heat for that. Two members of his own cabinet on Saturday upbraided him for the negotiations, saying doing this just before the election is unsavory. Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami retorted that while they were negotiating, Barak's team wouldn't sign anything. There...
...athletes were killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Mossad hit squads tracked down in Europe and Lebanon members of the Black September terrorist group responsible. But they also mistook a Moroccan waiter for the terrorist group's kingpin and assassinated him in Norway in 1973. Last week Prime Minister Barak, under pressure to halt the violence before Israel's Feb. 6 elections, defended the current hits in a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Committee members say Barak told them, "We're at war. A state facing a terrorist threat has to wage a struggle." Palestinian Cabinet...
...Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia; the Serbian people overthrew Slobodan Milosevic; South Korean President Kim Dae Jung put his country and North Korea on their best footing in 50 years; Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat failed to reach an Israeli-Palestinian agreement; and Vicente Fox ended 70 years of P.R.I. rule in Mexico through the ballot. To people outside the U.S., the presidential election was hardly the event that contributed the most to influencing the news, for better or worse, in 2000. JOAO LUIS HAMBURGER Sao Paulo...