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...settlements there, the Palestinians would get an extra slice of territory in Israel's Negev). Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would have to give up his demand that millions of Palestinian exiles have the "right" to return to homes in Israel lost during Mideast wars. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak would have to make concessions as well: Palestine would gain sovereignty over East Jerusalem neighborhoods and the top of Temple Mount, a holy site sacred to Jews and Arabs, who call it Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary. Clinton folded his notes and looked up. "If you want to reach...
Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo Thursday rejected a key component of the Clinton plan when they insisted that Palestinian refugees had a "sacred" right to return to their former homes in Israel. Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak immediately retorted that his country would never allow some 4 million Palestinians to return, and warned that the alternative to a peace agreement was an endless cycle of violence between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Thursday's exchange left the continued exchange of views in Washington looking like little more than going through the motions of discussing a deal that appears...
...Even before President Clinton's fruitless confab with Arafat, Prime Minister Ehud Barak appeared to be circling the wagons in Israel, warning that the Palestinian leader was not serious about concluding a deal and once again urging his army to prevent attacks on Israelis by any means necessary - a directive that has been interpreted in recent months as license to carry out a systematic program of assassinating selected Palestinian militants held responsible by Israel for planning or committing acts of violence. Having failed to secure a peace agreement on which to campaign, Barak's best hope for winning reelection...
...West Bank, recognizes Palestinian sovereignty in parts of East Jerusalem and over the Muslim holy sites atop that city?s Temple Mount, and requires Arafat to drop claims for the right of some 4 million Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes inside Israel. Just as Prime Minister Ehud Barak accepted the proposals and then immediately added that he would not recognize Palestinian sovereignty over any part of the Temple Mount, so must Chairman Arafat?s acceptance be measured against the factors weighing overwhelmingly against him making any compromises on Jerusalem or the fate of the refugees. Essentially both...
...death toll had climbed to 270, most of them Palestinians. The three participants in the earlier U.S. meeting found themselves caught in various binds: President Bill Clinton was desperate for a large foreign policy victory to burnish his legacy but had a very short deadline; Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who had sacrificed his coalition government when he sat down with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in July, was forced to hang tough against the Palestinians if he wanted to keep power at all; and Arafat was faced with an ever more restive constituency. It was an unshakable stalemate...