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...SAEB ERAKAT IS YASSER ARAFAT'S CHIEF NEGOTIATOR AND MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. HE LIVES IN JERICHO...
...Saeb Erakat is Yasser Arafat's chief negotiator and minister of local government. He lives in Jericho...
Even the summit's death seemed odd. It came at 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Saeb Erakat, a top aide to Yasser Arafat, walked into the living room of Aspen Lodge, where Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger sat, and read them a letter from the Palestinian leader. Arafat saw no use continuing talks on an agreement to end 52 years of conflict with Israel. Sovereignty over Jerusalem and its holy sites was the stumbling block. "The problem is they both want the same thing," Albright said later in an interview with TIME...
...Erakat folded the letter and looked up dejectedly: "I'm very unhappy that we did not reach an agreement." Clinton stared at him vacantly. "I don't like to fail, particularly at this," he said softly. But he and the others were too spent to even feel sad. Clinton had been up almost 48 hours in a final diplomatic surge; Albright and Berger had had so many emotional highs and lows in the previous two weeks that they were numb. In nearby Laurel Lodge, where meals were served, Palestinian and Israeli diplomats had already begun hugging one another and apologizing...
Sound too idealistic? Not to Ali Erakat, an 11-year-old trooper in Operation Kestrel with a baseball cap turned backward on his head and braces on his teeth. This assertive young man happens to be the son of Sa'eb Erakat, the tough-talking Palestinian peace negotiator. Asked how he felt about meeting and working with Israeli kids, the younger Erakat replied, "I feel happy if they feel happy. None of us want the birds to be in danger. Things like this help us to make peace between kids." Even his cagey old father would have to smile...