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...Egyptians to act more forcefully to implement a cease-fire. Egypt's failure during this week's U.N. Security Council debate to support the Palestinian demand for international observers was a strong signal of President Hosni Mubarak's impatience with Arafat. And it was German foreign minister Joschka Fischer who in June twisted Arafat's arm to declare a cease-fire or risk losing European diplomatic and financial support following the Tel Aviv disco bombing...
...Palestinians, the relationship between the two is reversed - their objective is ending the occupation, whether by violent or peaceful means, and a peace agreement only appeals in as much as it offers a mechanism for achieving that goal. Bridging the gulf between those positions may be beyond even Herr Fischer's considerable mediation skills - and that's even before they get to the vexed questions of refugees, settlements, water rights and Jerusalem...
...cease-fire efforts, a new flurry of diplomatic semaphores from Washington, Berlin, the United Nations, Cairo, Jerusalem and Ramallah suggests a renewed attempt to contain the recent escalation of violence, and to follow the Mitchell Report's recommendations on triage for the stricken peace process. German foreign minister Joschka Fischer on Tuesday persuaded Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres to hold a new round of face-to-face talks, under his auspices, at some point in the near future...
...duties to itself, did its best to keep the Europeans and the United Nations on the sidelines and brought in Arab leaders only when they were needed to reinforce Washington's pressure on Arafat, President Bush will find himself drawn onto a more crowded field. It was Germany?s Fischer who had, in June, twisted Yasser Arafat's arm to declare a cease-fire following the Tel Aviv disco bombing that killed 21 Israelis, warning the Palestinian leader that he'd lose all-important European financial and diplomatic support if he refused. This time, the Germans are hoping to move...
...Moderated by KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr., the panel also included Stanley Fischer, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Allan Meltzer, the former chair to the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission to the U.S. Congress and Brad DeLong and Barry Eichengreen, University of California-Berkeley economists...