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...Arafat's Turn The President's meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu produced no substantive results; now Clinton gets to do it again with Arafat. Expect the ritual to be repeated some time soon...
WASHINGTON: Following Tuesday?s nothing-to-report meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu, President Clinton meets Thursday with Yasser Arafat. The pattern is familiar, says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad: ?After Thursday, they?ll send a U.S. envoy to the region to get talks restarted. Both sides will repeat the same complaints they presented to Clinton. The envoy will leave, the situation will deteriorate and then, at some point, they?ll be back in the White House...
...Keep an eye, though, on where Arafat breaks bread: Possibly in order to signal his displeasure at Netanyahu?s failure to come up with a credible West Bank withdrawal plan, the President Tuesday eschewed the traditional formal working lunch with his guest, leaving the Israeli leader to sup with Al Gore in the basement of the White House staff canteen. The message to Netanyahu will be unmistakable if the Palestinian leader gets table service with the President...
WASHINGTON: When he visits the White House Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu can expect to get an earful on his government's proposed limited and conditional withdrawal from the West Bank. "Prospects for the meeting are pretty grim," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "All the U.S. can hope for is to stop the process going completely off the rails by keeping the two sides talking about certain practical areas, and wait for Netanyahu's government to collapse...
...will the Palestinians and Israel's Arab neighbors have the patience to wait out Netanyahu's demise? "Well, it's a very risky strategy," says Fischer. "Already the indications from Arafat are that the Intifada uprising could be revived if there's no progress in the peace process, and that would create a volatile situation throughout the region." The Palestinians have implored President Clinton to use some of Washington's power over Israel to force Netanyahu to go along with the peace process, but Clinton's record suggests he regards sweating Israel as an unacceptable domestic political risk. Which probably...