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...sight. National television had already gone live last Thursday afternoon to the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, where a row of Israeli flags had been set up to flank Prime Minister Ehud Barak as he prepared to announce a cease-fire that would halt five weeks of bloodshed. But in Jerusalem people heard another voice ring out--a terrible, too familiar boom. Police rushed through the narrow alleys of the Mazkoret Moshe neighborhood, hammering on doors to evacuate shaken elderly residents. Thick smoke filled the alleys. Black-hatted yeshiva students ducked around corners, calling out in Yiddish for their friends...
Israeli and Palestinian leaders don't want a war, but they can't exactly afford to sign a peace agreement, either. And it's in the sullen no-man's-land between the two options that Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat are once again tentatively reaching out to each other. But judging from the proposals being floated by the Palestinian Authority right now, the talks both men will hold with President Clinton in Washington later this weeks are more likely to be exploratory "talks about talks" than any kind of speedy resumption of the Oslo Accord-based peace process that...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak hoped he had seen the last of Hizballah when he ended a 22-year military occupation of southern Lebanon in May. Many Lebanese, including some Hizballah moderates, expected the group to downsize its guerrilla activities and become a conventional political party. But Hizballah's political ambitions were toasted by a dismal showing in parliamentary elections in September. So, with the blessing of Iran, which has supported Hizballah for years, the group has returned to its path of violent resistance...
Israeli and Palestinian leaders don't want a war, but they can't exactly afford to sign a peace agreement, either. And it's in the sullen no-man's-land between the two options that Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat are once again tentatively reaching out to each other. But judging from the proposals being floated by the Palestinian Authority right now, the talks both men will hold with President Clinton in Washington later this weeks are more likely to be exploratory "talks about talks" than any kind of speedy resumption of the Oslo Accord-based peace process that...
...Israelis feeling about the latest cease-fire agreement, following the latest Jerusalem bomb attack? Is it increasing the domestic political strain on Ehud Barak...