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Yasser Arafat may be having a hard time keeping Palestinian militants in line with his latest cease-fire agreement, but Ehud Barak could find his own plans to tamp down the violence being second-guessed by Israeli settlers. With Israel's deadline for an end to the violence due to expire Friday amid the noontime Muslim prayers that have often touched off fresh waves of rage, the tenuous cease-fire reached at Sharm el-Sheik is under new strain following a firefight that raged into the night near Nablus Thursday. The incident, in which one Palestinian and one Israeli were...
...Ehud Barak has been complaining for some weeks now that Israel no longer has a partner for peace. And while that may be part of the blame game for the violent clashes in Palestinian territories that have continued despite Tuesday's cease-fire agreement, it may contain a more profound truth: Yasser Arafat's claim to leadership over the Palestinians has never looked more shaky. Doubts are growing throughout the Middle East over whether the aging, ailing Palestinian leader will be able to deliver on undertakings given to President Clinton at Sharm el-Sheik to rein in militants...
Oral agreements, as the saying goes, are worth about as much as the paper on which they're written. And in the case of the cease-fire agreed to at Sharm el-Sheikh Tuesday, the oral agreement was not one between Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak, but rather two separate agreements between each man and President Clinton. That leaves each side to interpret the agreement according to their own explanation of the current violence, and gives it at best a 50-50 chance of holding. Israel has ostensibly agreed to withdraw its army from the perimeter of most major Palestinian...
Further unrest developed deep in Palestinian territory at the site of the Israeli-controlled Joseph's Tomb at Nablus. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak pulled his soldiers out, supposedly with an agreement that the site would be guarded by Palestinian police. The next day those police joined with rioters in demolishing the old domed structure. A new front opened over the weekend, when Hizballah guerrillas darted over the Lebanese border and captured three Israelis. Barak responded with an ultimatum to the Palestinians to end the clashes within 48 hours...
...hard to be optimistic about peace talks in which one of the leaders has to be held hostage. Madeleine Albright had been holed up with Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak for almost 12 hours last Wednesday in the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris. But the Israeli Prime Minister still refused Arafat's demand for an international inquiry into the violent clashes that had so far left more than 60 Palestinians dead. By 10 p.m., Albright's aides broke the news to Arafat that the best he would probably get was a U.S.-led fact-finding commission...