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First, that peace is not something that can be negotiated, because history is not something that can be forgotten. Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat did not reach a "final agreement" because it is impossible for three signatures to numb the memories of decades, centuries, millenia of internecine struggle. Peace can, however, evolve out of stability. We should not force final agreements or accords to those who don't want them, but work towards achieving a world without the terrors of Molotov cocktails, tear gas and fatal rubber bullets...
...others with a fervent, steely passion to win what they feel their people deserve. All the entries are tinged with sadness. The week began with a hurried summit in Egypt, at which President Clinton squeezed an oral cease-fire plan from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. On Friday, wild fighting in many of the disputed areas left nine Palestinians dead and at least 80 wounded on both sides. The sadness, it seems, may be with us a while longer...
...Danny Yatom, 55, is Prime Minister Ehud Barak's chief of staff. He traveled with Barak to the summit...
...Sharm el-Sheik summit Bill Clinton held with Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Monday and Tuesday was supposed to get the combatants on the streets disengaged, the siege lifted and the peace talks started once again. The day after the summit, Barak pulled his forces back in some places and Arafat curbed some of the violence. But the fighting is flaring up again and the cease-fire is hanging by a thin thread. During her flight back Wednesday from the marathon Middle East talks, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sat down with TIME...
What cease-fire? Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak announced an indefinite suspension of the peace process Friday after Israel's deadline for the latest cease-fire to take effect was greeted with the worst violence in two weeks. Nine Palestinians were killed and 67 were wounded in clashes throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Indeed, the AP reports that the most vicious clash began minutes after Israel's 4 p.m. deadline, when Palestinian militiamen fired on Israeli soldiers, and four Palestinians were killed and 20 wounded when the Israelis returned sustained fire rather than the single-shot bursts that...