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...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu too the episode was a multiple fiasco. The Mossad operation failed. It jeopardized relations with Jordan. It strained ties with the U.S. Late last week Canada recalled its ambassador to Israel to protest the use of faked passports. And once again Netanyahu had fallen short of his pledge to provide Israelis with an answer to Hamas terrorism...
...King insisted that the Israelis supply an antidote to the poison their hit men had inflicted on Meshal. Netanyahu complied, and an American doctor from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was summoned to treat Meshal, who was released from the hospital last Thursday. But Hussein remained outraged and by Saturday was refusing even to talk to the Israelis. On that day he telephoned President Clinton and asked him to intervene to resolve the crisis. Several U.S. officials scrambled to find a resolution, urging Netanyahu to do whatever was necessary to mollify the King...
Despite the crisis with Jordan and Mossad's subsequent embarrassment, Netanyahu, says an official who dealt with him, was "the epitome of sangfroid" throughout the imbroglio. If the Prime Minister was unperturbed, it was because of his strong determination, which he has demonstrated from the beginning, to go his own way. That, however, is an increasingly lonely path...
Washington's diplomatic efforts bear fruit as Arafat and Netanyahu finally return to the table (TIME Daily...
While the leader of Hamas sets his terms for peace (TIME Daily), Benjamin Netanyahu claims responsibility over Israel's botched hit on a Hamas official (Reuters...