Word: beyers
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...expect him to be toppled. As West Bank settlers barricaded roads, right-wingers in Israel's parliament failed on Monday to pass a no-confidence vote over the Wye agreement. "The opposition has promised to back Netanyahu over the agreement," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "That doesn't mean they won't push for early election so that they can unseat him and take forward the peace process themselves...
...well have to face the electorate as early as next March, but the Israeli leader's reluctant signature at Wye could be a strategy to keep his job. "Netanyahu knew centrist voters would reject him if he didn't sign," says Beyer. "Polls show that an overwhelming majority of Israelis back this agreement. The right-wing opposition is very vocal, but it's a minority." That doesn't mean that Netanyahu has reversed his own ideological opposition to trading land for peace. Says Beyer, "Netanyahu can live with this deal because he knows...
...both sides came to Wye in order to position themselves most favorably in U.S. eyes for that confrontation. "Netanyahu's interest remains to have a peace process without an end point, to simply keep the ball rolling and rolling but never get anywhere," said TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer at the start of the talks. "Arafat has lost hope of making significant process peace with this Israeli leadership. He has his eye on next May. Both sides are preparing for that eventuality...
...TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. Late Wednesday, Netanyahu packed his bags and threatened to go home, but then allowed himself to be persuaded to stay. "Netanyahu's threatened walkout was so obviously feigned that it had to be primarily for domestic consumption," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "It's not like he was given any new concessions to persuade him to stay -- he just wants to be able to tell right-wing Israelis that he got the best deal possible under the circumstances...
...threaten to break down in a flurry of recriminations. The President has already invested 57 hours in the talks, but both Israelis and Palestinians don't share his sense of the significance of the summit. "The talks aren't even the lead item on the TV news here," says Beyer. "This whole drawn-out high-level summit is inappropriate for the issues at stake here -- they're negotiating over the details of a single clause of the Oslo Agreement, but Washington is treating it with the same sense of drama as if it were a peace treaty between nations...