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...EHUD BARAK Finance scandal looms over Israeli P.M. Even Carville may not be able to save him from this...
South Lebanon's explosive political-military cocktail is back on the front burner, with Israel, Syria and the Hezbollah militia all adding their own interests to the mix - and all standing close enough to get burned. Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak came under mounting pressure Monday to either blast Hezbollah or unilaterally withdraw from Lebanon - or both - following a weekend attack by the Iran-backed guerrillas that killed the fifth Israeli soldier in two weeks...
White House officials suspect that aides to Israeli Prime Minister EHUD BARAK leaked the draft to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz to show skeptical Israelis that Barak is bargaining tough and winning concessions. "That does make our work harder," says State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN. Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister FAROUK SHARA were to return to Shepherdstown this week. Clinton aides hope the two will finally start bargaining seriously behind closed doors and stop posturing. "It doesn't instill confidence in your negotiating partners when everything is out in public," says a U.S. diplomat...
Like Middle East peacemakers before him, Clinton has to find just the right mix of push and pull. While the outlines of the exchange--return of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for secure, peaceful relations--are pretty well understood, the detailed terms are anything but. When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara spent their first two days of talks last week fencing, Clinton tried invoking history. The secluded West Virginia site at Shepherdstown, he reminded them, was only a few miles from Antietam. There Americans fought one of the bloodiest battles in their Civil...
...Syria over the weekend mooted postponing a return to Washington, and the formal announcement came from Israel on Monday. The first round of talks between Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa ended inconclusively at Shepherdstown, W. Va., last week as the two sides wrestled for control of the agenda. And both sides are clearly encountering domestic political resistance to making the concessions required for a peace deal. "This process is going to be slow and difficult, and we're going to see a number of crises before they reach a deal," says MacLeod. "We shouldn...