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...hatred, [but] out of respect." Palestinians, he believed, needed to find a way to stand on their own. Barak's election campaign last year ran a poster with the slogan US HERE, THEM THERE. But it was supposed to be the result of peace talks. U.S. diplomats fear that separation--even if it comes in response to a unilateral move by Arafat--will lead only to more violence as Palestinians feel the shock of isolation. "For the peace process, unilateral separation is truly disastrous," says a U.S. diplomat. "What flows from it is inevitable conflict." The appeal of separation...
...American diplomats worried privately before Camp David that Arafat hadn't prepared his people adequately for the tough choices he'd have to make. But they failed to grasp why he hadn't done so: Arafat arrived at the presidential retreat already having made far more concessions than Palestinians on the streets were ready to accept. "Clinton assumed that Arafat didn't have firmly felt positions, that his problems could be papered over," says Edward Abbington, a former State Department diplomat who now advises the Palestinians...
...hands grumble that their director has no business playing the diplomat. How can he give Clinton unbiased intelligence on whether Middle East peace initiatives are succeeding or failing if he has a stake in their success? The White House, at least, sees no conflict with its top spy moonlighting. "He winds up providing better intelligence" because he works more closely with the region's leaders, insists a Clinton aide. So Tenet will keep his seat at the negotiating table--to say nothing of his proximity to the front lines...
...article in Newsweek suggests the Arizona senator wants to be seen as a diplomat above the fray, not hamstrung by the exigencies of a political campaign...
During last summer's Camp David peace talks, South Korean diplomats in Seoul grilled counterparts from the Middle East, calling for hourly updates, buttonholing them at embassy receptions. Why did Seoul monitor negotiations so closely? "They were afraid the talks would be successful," says a diplomat, "and KIM DAE JUNG would lose the Nobel." Many observers feel the unstated motivation driving President Kim's push for detente between the Koreas is an obsession with winning the Peace Prize, which will be announced Friday. Kim's resume has "Nobel" stamped all over it. He was jailed by military dictatorships, and assassins...