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Frustrated by Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU's refusal to accept a U.S. proposal for Israel to withdraw from 13% of the West Bank, aides to PRESIDENT CLINTON say Washington may soon pull out of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. "We would tell them, 'You're on your own,'" says a senior White House staff member. But the problem for Clinton is how to make good on that threat yet avoid getting hammered at home. The last time Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT gave Netanyahu an ultimatum--in May she told him to show up in Washington prepared to accept...
WASHINGTON: Frustrated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to accept a U.S. proposal for Israel to withdraw from 13 percent of the West Bank, aides to President Clinton say Washington may soon pull out of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. "We would tell them, 'You're on your own,'" says a senior White House staff member. But the problem for Clinton is how to make good on that threat yet avoid getting hammered at home...
...last time Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave Netanyahu an ultimatum -- in May she told him to show up in Washington prepared to accept the U.S. proposal -- he stood her up and instead unleashed powerful Jewish groups in the U.S. that blasted the administration for bullying him. Albright, who has had more than half a dozen phone conversations with Netanyahu in the past week, "is fed up with the talks," says a State Department official. But to withdraw from them now "without pointing a finger at Israel is not going to be easy. There will be war with Bibi...
...astounding to see how the government of Benjamin Netanyahu increasingly echoes shades of the intransigent, apartheid-era South African government of President P.W. Botha. Only Netanyahu's personal charisma precludes even more opprobrium in the face of international condemnation of his hardened position on the Palestinian question...
...NAME] BIBI NETANYAHU [JOB] Prime Minister of Israel [WHY IN THE NEWS] Figured percentages with Madeleine Albright [DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC] His array of bodyguards [FREQUENTLY PHOTOGRAPHED] Fending off U.S. diplomats...