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...calm things down in the next couple of days because he doesn't want to create a momentum he can't easily stop." Meanwhile Arafat's chief negotiator, Yasser Abdel Rabbo, resigned Monday over the Palestinian leader's handling of the talks, while Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak faced a mutiny from key coalition partners over his plan to cede three West Bank villages on the outskirts of Jerusalem to Palestinian control...
...with Israel in recent years has been its ability to guarantee security in Lebanon, which is subject to de facto Syrian military control, and allow Israel to end an occupation that's deeply unpopular with the Israeli electorate. But when talks broke down over the Golan issue, Prime Minister Ehud Barak decided to call Syria's bluff by unilaterally withdrawing from a war that was costing Israeli lives with little security benefit. That suited Hezbollah, which would with some justification claim to be the first army ever to have driven Israel from Arab territory. Instead of being reined...
Jordan may be Israel's best friend in the Arab world, but King Abdullah was never going to give Ehud Barak a blank check on the future of Jerusalem. The king made a brief visit to the Jewish state Sunday and held low-profile working meetings with Prime Minister Barak and other officials, disappointing Israeli hopes for a high-profile state visit. More alarming for Israel, Abdullah threw down a challenge in an interview with Israeli TV Saturday, urging that Jerusalem be declared an "open city" that could function at once as the capital of the Jewish state...
...pressure to back out of an arms deal with China. Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said Wednesday that his government would go ahead with a deal to supply an advanced airborne surveillance system to Beijing, despite pressure from President Clinton during his Tuesday meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Barak to stop the sale. The Israeli hard line coincides with an historic visit to the Jewish state by China's President Jiang Zemin Wednesday, but also reflects a growing tendency in Israel to define its long-term interests independently of the U.S. rather than to depend exclusively on Washington...
...March 26, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad met with President Clinton in Geneva in a failed summit on peace in the Middle East. The Syrian leader has no plans to hold such a meeting with Israeli premier Ehud Barak. This diplomatic picture speaks a thousand words of Syrian intentions...