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...bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "If they're prosperous middle class Ashkenazis (Jews of European origin) they tend to vote Labor; and if they're from the ranks of the aggrieved, disadvantaged Jews who came to Israel from Arab countries, they vote Likud." The balance between those communities underpins the deadlock of Israeli politics, and none of the new centrist parties looks likely to bridge that divide...
...game headed into overtime in a 16-16 deadlock, my complacency waned. Barring a safety, the spread had gone out the window and the Lions would have to win outright to secure...
...taken Israelis and Palestinians 19 months of deadlock, and eight days of non-stop negotiations, to achieve an interim deal that does little more than implement the next "land-for-peace" stage of the Oslo agreement. When -- and if -- Friday's agreements are put into practice, the two sides will still have to negotiate what Oslo called the "final status" issues. These include the impossibly tricky questions of a Palestinian state, Israeli settlers in Palestinian territories and even the future of Jerusalem...
...demand for greater security guarantees; the Palestinian Authority condemned the attack as the work of Palestinian hard-liners out to wreck the peace process. Both sides promised to keep talking. But not even 30 hours of President Clinton's time at the weekend could break the 18-month deadlock over the interim step of an Israeli withdrawal from a further 13 percent of the West Bank. A final-status agreement may have to wait for time and elections to produce an entirely new cast of characters...
...Even if the current 19-month deadlock is broken, a final deal remains elusive. The current talks are over the size of Israel's second withdrawal from the West Bank -- they've not even begun to talk about the third one prescribed in the Oslo Accords. And with next May's "final status" agreement deadline looming, Netanyahu refuses even to discuss some issues specified by Oslo, such as the status of Jerusalem. "These two leaders are unlikely to reach a final agreement," says Beyer. "But as long as the talks don't end in curses and threats, Washington will announce...