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...unstable coalition that brought Benjamin Netanyahu to power has crumbled after just 30 months. Monday the national government came apart amidst arguments about Netanyahu's handling of peace negotiations, and the Knesset took the first step toward early elections. It has to vote for new elections twice more before they can be called, but the move has such wide support it's almost a sure bet to pass...
...well be remembered as the summit that provided no footholds and no escape. Barely two days after President Clinton met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton faces a snowballing impeachment movement and Netanyahu faces early elections, probably in the spring. The prime minister announced Wednesday that he would take his hard-line peace policies to the electorate if he could not muster support for them from the Knesset next Monday. Netanyahu's right wing is in shambles over how much hard line and how much peace there should be in those policies. "We're going to elections," predicted confidently...
...between right and left," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. The country has developed a strong consensus for peace, but the devil is in the details over what concessions should be made. The immediate impact of elections "will be to put the whole process on hold," says Beyer. "Netanyahu, who is not eager to implement the latest Wye agreements, will use the election campaign to delay matters until the electorate speaks." So much for this week's summit...
...after Palestinians agreed to stop calling for the destruction of Israel, Bill Clinton had the chutzpah to want more -- from the Israeli side. Benjamin Netanyahu didn't help him -- from Israel's perspective, Clinton's trip represented a terrific loss. And so, in a fruitless two-hour meeting with Clinton and Yasser Arafat Tuesday morning, Netanyahu reiterated that there would be no more troop withdrawals unless the Palestinians made further concessions. Arafat left the meeting early and without comment -- though he was doubtless smiling inside...
...Clinton's arrival at the Gaza airport is nothing less than the creation of a Palestinian state, which is huge," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. That explains Netanyahu's recalcitrance, and his contention that Israel's soldiers are going nowhere until Arafat also abandons plans to declare a Palestinian state in May. "In the zero-sum game that the peace process has become," Beyer says, "for Israel this visit has to be seen as a defeat." For Arafat, though, even a failed round of peace talks has rarely seemed so sweet...