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...Clinton pulls, however, it is Berger who moves into action. While media-savvy Madeleine Albright grabs most of the headlines for selling American foreign policy, Berger most often crafts it--and carries it out. Last month he waded deep into the Wye Plantation talks between Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu. In August he helped orchestrate a strike against Osama bin Laden. Says Energy Secretary Bill Richardson: "People don't realize how much he's increased the stature and scope of that...
...furious with the group?s secretary-general, Marwan Barghouti, who has led an anticorruption campaign within Fatah that culminated in an anti-P.A. riot in Ramallah last month. The ferocious rhetoric, says the source, was aimed at rallying Fatah activists behind Arafat. When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to freeze the land transfer until Arafat recanted, the chairman, according to a confidant, regretted the remarks. It was U.S. special envoy Dennis Ross who suggested the wording of Arafat?s retraction, a pledge to resolve conflicts "through negotiations but not through any other means." Netanyahu accepted; the Knesset voted...
Wisse expressed doubts about the formula thus far engaged by Netanyahu of ceding territory in exchange for promises of peace from the Palestinians...
While Mendelsohn accused Netanyahu of waffling, Wisse criticized the prime minister for granting the U.S. the role of "guarantor" in its negotiations with the Palestinian Authority...
...best, the Netanyahu government might begin the process, but this government's ability to successfully conduct final status negotiations is not adequate to the task," Mendelsohn said...