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Neither Arafat nor Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak seemed intent on peace yesterday...
...July, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat seemed on the brink of bringing their people to lasting peace. Now, however, their people are on the brink of despair. We deeply mourn the loss of life that the past two weeks have brought, but we fervently hope that peace is still attainable. We urge all involved to work toward the common goal of lasting peace. We look to the students at Harvard to demonstrate a willingness to share this burden, instead of dividing themselves along the same divisive lines that are tearing apart the social fabric...
...been held, and at targets in Gaza City, where Arafat was meeting CIA director George Tenet to discuss ways of ending the violence. By day?s end, Palestinian cities throughout the West Bank and Gaza were under siege by Israeli helicopters and tanks, the Prime Minister Ehud Barak was moving to establish a "national emergency" government with his hawkish Likud opposition. And Israeli and Palestinian spokesman were in agreement on one thing - the peace process was dead. Of course they typically hastened to add that it could be revived, but directed all blame for its demise at the opposing side...
President Clinton is currently attempting to organize an emergency peace summit between Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. (Please see Associated Press story, page...
Avoiding war rather than attaining peace is about the best the U.S. can hope to achieve in the Middle East right now. Washington appears to have walked Prime Minister Ehud Barak back from the brink after the Israeli leader had vowed to abandon the peace process unless violence in Palestinian territories had abated by Monday evening. Barak on Monday night announced an extension of his ultimatum and also agreed to attend a regional peace summit if President Clinton manages to convene...