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...Camp David" was once a code word for Mideast peace breakthroughs, and President Clinton may be hoping that its aura rubs off on Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak when he hosts a make-or-break summit there next week. But while the historic 1977 meeting between President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menahem Begin may have produced an Israeli-Egyptian peace deal that became the crowning achievement of the Carter administration, President Clinton's confab looks like little more than a last-minute Hail Mary pass...
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak decided to do the right thing and withdraw troops from southern Lebanon to within Israel's recognized borders, he warned that the Lebanese militia Hizballah would intensify its attacks and make it look as if it had won a war, but this possibility did not deter Barak from carrying out his plan. Nevertheless, almost all the news media interpreted the withdrawal as a defeat for Israel and did not give a balanced view. With Israel located in a region that is the focal point of the three major religions, I guess Barak is damned...
Pass the rabbis some (political) pork and Israel's political "crisis" would be resolved in a flash. But with Washington pushing hard for concessions from both sides to secure an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal before President Clinton leaves office, it may actually suit Ehud Barak to be seen as on the ropes for a while longer. Barak's government faces collapse on Thursday, when the resignations of four cabinet members from the ultra-religious Shas party take effect. But the religious party, which mainly represents orthodox Jews who emigrated to Israel from the Arab world, isn't balking...
...talk about. So I think there's progress in that regard. They are really dealing with the hardest issues. The President asked me to go [to the Middle East] to determine whether there's a sufficient basis for going forward with the summit [with Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat] or whether we have to keep working. I'm going to be looking at narrowing the gaps...
...years - and that's being optimistic. Nevertheless, Clinton ordered Albright to cut short her trip with him to Russia and the Ukraine last weekend and rush to Jerusalem. Talks between Israel and Syria on returning the Golan Heights were dead in the water. But negotiations between Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser Arafat on ending their people?s half-century conflict were still alive...