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...others, put together by picture editor MaryAnne Golon and designed by art director Arthur Hochstein, with text written by James Poniewozik. Getting these shots posed some challenges. Heisler, in the Middle East to shoot Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, spent five days in Gaza waiting for an audience with Arafat. But the Israelis called first, with word that Barak would be available the next morning. So Heisler and his crew lugged their gear across the border for the photo session--and barely got back to Gaza in time for a call saying that Arafat...
...might think they were in the same room. But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his Palestinian counterpart actually sat for TIME in Jerusalem and Gaza City, respectively. Two men, just a few miles away, in fact separated by light-years of misunderstandings. So it was this summer when Barak came to Camp David resolved to settle the Palestinian question with an unprecedented concession: a Palestinian state. Later he considered having Jerusalem's holiest sites administered by a third party. It was a stunning, failed leap. Negotiations collapsed, the Holy Land exploded, and Barak resigned in an effort to stay...
...course sovereignty over the hill in Jerusalem that Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call Mazari al Sharif. Both sides have reported progress in talks over a deal brokered by the Americans, in which Israel would withdraw from more than 90 percent of the West Bank and Gaza and from most of Arab East Jerusalem, resolving the status of the disputed Holy Sites in a bit of linguistic sophistry that fudges the question of sovereignty in a way that allows both sides to claim their demands have been satisfied. The deal, whose details are still being fiercely contested, would...
...even as the negotiators parsed the fine print of the U.S. proposals Thursday, four more Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in clashes in the West Bank and Gaza. Attitudes on the Palestinian streets are hardening from indifference to the efforts of Arafat's negotiators to open hostility. He may not face a reelection battle as such, but the Palestinian leader is unable to entirely disregard Palestinian public opinion. Even in the best-case scenario, then, the talks in Washington may produce a document that will simply serve as a reminder of what might have been...
...Percent drop in economic activity in the West Bank and Gaza since violence escalated in September...