Word: netanyahu
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Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu deserves credit for resisting the pressures of the Israeli Right and agreeing to complete important troop re-deployments in the West Bank. He was particularly courageous in agreeing to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails...
Talks almost crumbled last Wednesday, and little would have been achieved without the dedication of all four men--Netanyahu, Arafat, Clinton and Hussein--to crafting a working agreement...
...opponents agree, has given the President some much-needed stature. Indeed, they're both such winners that Clinton is doing his best to link them: "If you were heartbroken when that young man was killed, if you were elated by the fact that these two people -- Prime Minister Netanyahu and Chairman Arafat -- were able to reach across this great divide... that means you know that we can't define our future by putting people down," he told a Bel Air fund-raiser Saturday...
...underwhelming. "It required extraordinary effort and energy to produce a very modest agreement," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "But that modest agreement is nonetheless essential to get the process back on track so that the Israelis and Palestinians can address the really sticky issues." And whatever others Netanyahu decides to throw into...
...After a morning of frantic negotiation, Netanyahu on Friday appeared to have backed off from his refusal to sign a peace deal unless he could take Pollard home with him. Israel "de-linked" the issues, giving Clinton the space to release Pollard at a later point. The problem, says Thompson, is that Israeli brinkmanship on the issue has created a situation where even a future release of Pollard may carry a domestic political cost...