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...Ehud Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister, doesn't care much about how things look. The tanks he supervised as an army officer were among the military's dustiest. The suits he wears as a civilian are unmodish and occasionally ill fitting. Points of ceremony do not rate with him. He refused to take umbrage when the Syrians sent merely their Foreign Minister to a peace summit with him last December--or to be insulted when his negotiating partner would not shake his hand...
...quite now or never, but certainly now-or-a-lot-later for Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat. President Clinton held talks with the Israeli leader in Portugal Thursday, hoping to jump-start the stalled Israeli-Palestinian track of the Middle East peace process. Both sides had previously committed themselves to concluding a final agreement by September, but that looks increasingly difficult as major differences remain unresolved: over how much of the West Bank Israel will cede to an eventual Palestinian state; over the status of East Jerusalem; over the future of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees that Israel...
...Israel's albatross as it lost hundreds of soldiers over the years and still failed to eliminate Hezbollah. Israel had hoped to negotiate its withdrawal as part of a wider peace agreement with Syria, which would then police southern Lebanon. But despite the breakdown of those talks, Prime Minister Ehud Barak was under strong domestic pressure to end a deeply unpopular occupation...
...Lebanon didn't turn off the lights, but he did lock the gate. He also symbolically opened a dangerous new chapter of Israel's troubled relations with its neighbors. The last Israelis departed before dawn Wednesday, as the collapse of their Lebanese Christian proxy army forced Prime Minister Ehud Barak to speed up the withdrawal plan. Even more worrying to the Israeli leader than the spectacle of his troops retreating under fire and Hezbollah guerrillas dancing triumphantly atop tanks abandoned by his Lebanese allies is the fact that the vacuum left by Israel has been filled by a guerrilla movement...
Israel's race to depart Lebanon could make life difficult for Yasser Arafat, because the spectacle of the Israeli army retreating under fire is emboldening Palestinian militants hostile to the peace process. Then again, Arafat is in no hurry to take the peace Ehud Barak is offering, and is happy to use the upsurge of violence on the West Bank to press for more concessions. "Palestinian leaders know from experience that outbreaks of violence create the pressure that forces Israel to make concessions," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "While the Israelis fear that the situation in the West...