Word: palestinians
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After the Blair House confrontation, the summit was on the edge of disaster. On Wednesday morning Arafat phoned Christopher and threatened to leave Washington. "We were nowhere," says an Administration official. "In fact, we were worse off than when they arrived." Christopher summoned senior Israeli and Palestinian ministers and negotiators to his office in Foggy Bottom. "We've just got to create something," he told them. After three hours, they stitched together the agreement that Clinton announced at his news conference that afternoon: a renunciation of violence and an agreement to open-ended negotiations on easing the Israeli presence...
That civil outcome did not appear to lift the spirits of the Palestinian leader. At the White House press conference his expression was glazed, his skin gray and drawn. He canceled a press conference of his own, and at a dinner at the Egyptian embassy, Arafat behaved even more dispiritedly. "He looked sick and incapable of focusing," said a guest at the meal. "His entourage was in the same state; they all seemed unable to absorb the enormity of the situation they found themselves in." While guests at the dinner tried to discuss the coming talks, Arafat and his followers...
...Palestinian leaders are not cheered by any improved relationship between the two men. Says Hassan Asfour, negotiations coordinator for the Palestinian Authority: "The problem is that Israel has a policy against the agreements." All that is needed, he says, is implementation of the accords already signed. "Without that, we will see ourselves in the same days we have seen before...
TIME: If you were a Palestinian, how do you think you would regard Netanyahu...
Netanyahu: If I read the controlled Palestinian media, I would think that, as they call me, I'm worse than Hitler...