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Boris Yeltsin always survived impeachment votes in a parliament heavily stacked against him for one simple reason - the legislators wanted to keep their jobs, and ousting him would have meant new elections. Now Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak may have benefited from a similar effect. His most dangerous challenger, Benjamin Netanyahu, bowed out of the February election Monday, citing the legislature's refusal to vote for a full new election. Instead, the Knesset voted on a special "Bibi Bill" to allow any citizen to run in February's poll, which is only for the post of prime minister...
Having stood his ground at Camp David, Yasser Arafat is unlikely to back down now despite warnings that his window of opportunity - in the form of President Clinton and Ehud Barak - is closing. Senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders are to meet Tuesday in Washington for an eleventh-hour attempt to broker a peace agreement, as the violence that has claimed more than 360 lives over the past 12 weeks rages unabated. But the eleventh hour, of course, tolls not for Arafat, but for the Clinton administration, whose tenure expires on January 20, and for Ehud Barak's caretaker government, which...
...Barak urgently needs at least a substantial interim peace agreement if he's to beat off the challenge of Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel goes to the polls - presuming Netanyahu can prevail over the legal obstacles to his candidacy - and President Clinton would dearly like to close out on a note of triumph. The specter of a right-wing Israeli government and a more distant Bush administration will be used to tempt Arafat to conclude a final peace deal while his Camp David partners are still in place, although there's also considerable Palestinian skepticism about being stampeded into compromises with...
...possibility of Barak's imminent departure and the approach of the Bush administration may be used by Israeli and U.S. officials this week to present the current round of talks as Yasser Arafat's last chance to achieve a deal over Palestinian statehood. But it's unlikely that the Israelis will be able to offer much more than they did at Camp David - and the political pressure against Arafat's accepting even that offer is considerably greater now that Palestinians have been burying about 25 of their young people a week since the end of September in what they...
Arafat may be weighing the imminent closure of the current negotiating "window" - and the expanded opportunity created by Barak's desperation - against the wisdom of making a deal with a lame-duck Israeli leader underwritten by a lame-duck U.S. president. Although Arafat has not ruled out the possibility of direct talks with Barak in the coming weeks, he may be content to go through the motions and wait to see where the political chips may fall. And, of course, to spend a good part of his time in Washington trying to cozy up to Colin Powell and Condi Rice...