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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...
...Benjamin Netanyahu decided not to press his luck. Afer causing an uproar earlier today with a last-second threat to bail out of peace talks unless President Clinton released convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli prime minister backed down. Instead, the issue of Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel, has been tabled until that nicest of diplomatic elements -- an unspecified later date -- occurs. The Israelis and Palestinians signed a pact Friday covering the Wye talks' main issue: Israeli withdrawal from 13.1 percent of the West Bank in exchange for greater security guarantees...
...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...