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...diplomat touches is classified, so without clearance, the ambassador can do no work. Indyk cannot even walk around the State Department or his own embassy without an escort. Israeli officials fear his absence will damage the Middle East peace process, in which he was intensely involved. Prime Minister Ehud Barak considers him a trusted conduit for exchanges with Washington. Albright defends her decision. "Ambassadors have a responsibility to protect classified documents," she told TIME. But the crackdown could make doing their job more difficult...
...Minister for fraud, many political observers are betting Netanyahu will soon be able to order a new stock of those paper coasters. The man who 16 months ago quit politics after an electoral pummeling is now cast by right-wingers as the only leader who can prevent Prime Minister Ehud Barak from making too many concessions to the Palestinians...
There was never going to be a quick fix between Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak at the end of a week of rioting in which upward of 70 Palestinians and several Israelis have been killed. And the failure of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's latest effort to forge an agreement to end the violence may be a sign that the events of the past week have stiffened the Palestinian leader's resolve at the negotiating table. After storming out of a summit meeting in Paris Wednesday - and reportedly only being stopped by Secretary Albright running after him and shouting...
...house in Paris covered with vines" that the storybook Madeline kept the peace - but she didn't have to contend with two peoples who'd been at each other's throats for a half-century. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright managed to coax Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat into the same room for crisis talks in Paris on Wednesday, after Arafat had initially demanded an international inquiry into the recent wave of violence as his price. But back home, the killings continued, with fierce battles raging in Gaza and the West Bank claiming...
...clashes began last Thursday with the arrival at the Al Aksa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, of Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, in a piece of political grandstanding designed to warn Prime Minister Ehud Barak off making any concessions on Jerusalem. The breadth and the intensity of the violence that has followed has been a resounding rejection on the Palestinian streets of U.S. and Israeli ideas on the future sovereignty over the Holy City. And the religious passion fueling that rejection - "jihad" (holy war) is the explanation most commonly cited by Palestinian demonstrators to explain their actions - will...