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...there is hope for this latest deal, it was conceived in an armored limousine zipping through an Indian summer night to Gaza City last Wednesday. Shimon Peres, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his founding role in the peace process, sat in the back of the limo with Gilead Sher, Barak's top peace negotiator. The Prime Minister had charged Peres and Sher with pulling Arafat back from the brink. The two men knew the urgency of their task. The previous night, gun battles had raged between the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo and the Palestinian town of Beit Jalla...
...Once in Gaza, Peres sat back and listened to Arafat complain. The excitable Palestinian leader inflated the numbers of dead and wounded and sneered at measures Israel thought of as concessions. "I sensed an unbelievable gap," Peres said. But over dinner Peres calmed Arafat. After they ate a dessert of kunafeh, sweet semolina topped with shredded wheat and syrup, Peres and Arafat talked alone. By half past midnight, they had a deal. Arafat agreed to end the shooting--though not the stones and the Molotov cocktails. In return, Peres would persuade Barak to pull back some of Israel's tanks...
...Israel on Monday nixed the suggestion by Arafat that a United Nations force be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza to protect Palestinians from the Israeli army. But a senior Palestinian official on Monday added the demand that the European Union and the United Nations join the U.S. in mediating future peace talks. Those calls reflect a growing sense that while they're exploring ways of restoring dialogue, the Palestinians may be reluctant to simply pick up the negotiation process where it left off at Camp David. And the Israelis may share that reluctance, if for their own reasons...
...Palestinians have their own brand of covert operations too. Israeli and Palestinian security sources believe that Hamas bombers are planning attacks against Israel. An Islamic Jihad activist blew himself up near an Israeli outpost in Gaza last week...
...Israel on Monday nixed the suggestion by Arafat that a United Nations force be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza to protect Palestinians from the Israeli army. But a senior Palestinian official on Monday added the demand that the European Union and the United Nations join the U.S. in mediating future peace talks. Those calls reflect a growing sense that while they're exploring ways of restoring dialogue, the Palestinians may be reluctant to simply pick up the negotiation process where it left off at Camp David. And the Israelis may share that reluctance, if for their own reasons...