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...Syria began exploratory talks with Rabin's government over returning the Golan Heights -- captured by Israel in the 1967 war -- in exchange for security guarantees, but Benjamin Netanyahu is determined to hold on to the territory. Even though there's little chance of any progress before Israel's June election, the surest sign that peace with Syria may be back on the agenda was Tuesday's report of a new Israeli settlement being built on the Golan. After all, no piece of ground is more attractive to the right-wing settler movement than one they fear may be negotiated away...
...postpone the declaration of Palestinian statehood he has repeatedly threatened to make on May 4, the date the interim Oslo peace accords expire. The timing became problematic once the Israelis scheduled elections for May 17. As much as Arafat may abhor the idea of allowing Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU to crow that his tough positions forced the Palestinian leader to back down, he fears a declaration would inflame Israeli passions and thereby help Netanyahu's re-election efforts...
...politics of the Middle East. Hussein's moderation, and the respect he enjoyed among friend and foe, made him the pivotal figure in the most recent turn of the peace process, when he rose from his sickbed at the Mayo clinic to coax Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu to conclude a deal at the Wye River talks...
...know you're in trouble when the person who gave you your initial political break 17 years ago suddenly decides to run against you. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned that harsh fact on Monday when former defense minister Moshe Arens, the man who appointed Netanyahu to the No. 2 spot at the Israeli embassy in Washington in 1982, announced he would challenge Netanyahu for the Likud party leadership. "There appears to be a growing consensus within the party," says TIME world editor Joshua Cooper Ramo, "that members may not want to bet all their cards on Bibi...
...arena, as Israel ponders before its next election the kind of peace it will seek to make with Palestinians. Some within the party say that Israel needs new faces, new leadership and new approaches. "This is reflected in the fact that not only are there others besides Arens challenging Netanyahu within Likud, "says Ramo, "but there are also an unusually high number of non-Likud and non-Labor candidates who have entered this spring's contest for prime minister." Though Likud and the electorate may decide to stick with the known quantity that is Netanyahu, at least one veteran...