Word: farouk
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...Clinton has to find just the right mix of push and pull. While the outlines of the exchange--return of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for secure, peaceful relations--are pretty well understood, the detailed terms are anything but. When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara spent their first two days of talks last week fencing, Clinton tried invoking history. The secluded West Virginia site at Shepherdstown, he reminded them, was only a few miles from Antietam. There Americans fought one of the bloodiest battles in their Civil War that took hundreds of thousands...
...Syria over the weekend mooted postponing a return to Washington, and the formal announcement came from Israel on Monday. The first round of talks between Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa ended inconclusively at Shepherdstown, W. Va., last week as the two sides wrestled for control of the agenda. And both sides are clearly encountering domestic political resistance to making the concessions required for a peace deal. "This process is going to be slow and difficult, and we're going to see a number of crises before they reach a deal," says MacLeod. "We shouldn...
...while Israel's intentions on withdrawing from the Golan remain secret. So it's hardly surprising that Syria has called a halt - after all, as much as Barak needs to be able to return to Tel Aviv claiming to have won security concessions, so does Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa need to be able to return to Damascus with an Israeli commitment to cede the Golan. So Bill Clinton will have to make his third personal intervention in only four days. At least it beats helping Hillary unpack the moving boxes in Westchester...
...Israel and Syria can't even agree on what issues to disagree on. Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa on Monday did accomplish the rather difficult feat of completing the first day of talks hosted by President Clinton in Shepherdstown, West Virginia without actually meeting face to face. Although the U.S. has imposed a news blackout to create a more conducive environment for a week of diplomacy, State Department spokesman James Rubin said Monday that the two sides had not yet agreed on the agenda for the talks. Syria wants to begin with territorial issues...