Word: palestinians
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...clock is ticking in this part of the world. Without continuous progress, the peace process falls apart. The U.S. is busy trying to nudge Israel and the Palestinians into implementing a long-delayed stage of the Oslo peace pact. Even with a breakthrough "time is really not our friend here," says National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. It's taken 18 months so far to negotiate the transfer of 13% of West Bank land. Now there's little hope the two can settle questions of Jerusalem's status and a future Palestinian state by Oslo's May 4 deadline...
After the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, Hassan took charge of rebuilding Jordan's economy and settling Palestinian refugees. On economic issues, he is passionate and smart. "He likes to call people in to talk about tariff reduction," says a Western diplomat in Amman. "He's fascinated by details, whereas the king's eyes will glaze over." In 1972, Hassan established the Royal Scientific Society, a think tank that has produced some of Jordan's leading economic experts. A proponent of IMF-style adjustments, Hassan currently oversees a program of cautious reform, including price decontrols and bank liberalizations...
...Israelis regard Hassan in the same light as his brother--as a reliable, even warm ally. Like the King, however, he has been scathing at times in his criticisms of the current Israeli government's obstinacy toward the Palestinians. That has made Hassan well liked within Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Periodically, the prince has mediated between the two sides. Within Jordan, Hassan has been viewed with suspicion by the majority of the population made up of Palestinian refugees and their descendants. This distrust baffles and disturbs the prince, but it has lessened over time. Today there are key Palestinians...
WASHINGTON: After a flurry of high-level talks, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have reached agreement -- to go home and keep talking, and then to return to Washington in October and talk some more. The White House Monday was clearly hoping to revive the moribund peace process and give President Clinton a foreign policy achievement to crow about. But the only concrete step to come out of the initiative was that Madeleine Albright (to her thinly veiled irritation) will fly the Middle East with Dennis Ross on October 6 to nudge talks along before Arafat and Netanyahu return to Washington...
...international support for a unilateral declaration of independence in May 1999, but that too could be a double-edged sword. Washington is unlikely to recognize the new state a year before Al Gore runs for president, while recognition by European countries may signal a sense of closure on the Palestinian question: "Recognizing a small Palestinian state allows the international community to wash its hands of the Palestinian issue," says Beyer. But with Netanyahu showing little sign of advancing the peace process on any other front, Arafat may well feel that he has no option...