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After more than 18 months of vacation from the peace process, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat have come together in Wye, Md., in an effort to broker a further Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, but the negotiations have so far yielded only more tension. This atmosphere was compounded by a grenade attack early Monday morning at a bus station in Beersheba that wounded 67 people...
...peace process is being crippled by several factors. Israel's refusal, whether right or wrong, to cede certain parts of the Judean mountains because of their strategic importance in protecting against foreign attack is one of many obstacles, along with Netanyahu's acrobatic effort to appease the Israeli far right while brokering a pull-out from Israeli-occupied territory. Meanwhile, Palestinian negotiating potential has been damaged by the acts of extremists who prefer tactics of terror to dealing peaceably with the Israelis...
...Netanyahu is right to insist on security, as he has repeatedly over the last few days. But he must also make concessions to the Palestinian people and agree to the 13 percent withdrawal from the West Bank which is being asked for. On the other side, Arafat must make more honest and concerted efforts to root out the terrorist factions with-in his ranks and comply with Israeli demands to turn over apprehended terrorists...
...President Clinton remained at the Wye Plantation with Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu until 3 a.m. Wednesday and later considered returning as the talks threaten to break down in a flurry of recriminations. The President has already invested 57 hours in the talks, but both Israelis and Palestinians don't share his sense of the significance of the summit. "The talks aren't even the lead item on the TV news here," says Beyer. "This whole drawn-out high-level summit is inappropriate for the issues at stake here -- they're negotiating over the details of a single clause...
...progress, whatever the spin on the outcome of the talks. Israel wants Arafat to clamp down hard on his Hamas opponents; Arafat is reluctant to take unpopular steps on behalf of an Israeli government he doesn't trust. "Arafat has lost hope that he can make significant progress with Netanyahu," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "He's unlikely to make unpopular decisions for a deal he doesn't believe Netanyahu will keep anyway." Arafat's reported illness and the expiry of Clinton and Netanyahu's terms in 2000, says Beyer, mean that "final-status peace arrangements will...