Word: parley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shamir, the agreement to attend the conference required only a slight shift in emphasis: he simply said yes, Israel would sit down at the peace parley provided the Palestinian delegation was acceptable, rather than no, it would not attend if the Palestinian group was not acceptable. Beyond that, the stone-faced Prime Minister gave away little. At meetings with his right-wing supporters, Shamir emphasized that he had not agreed to sacrifice -- or even discuss -- the status of Jerusalem and that there was no requirement for Israel to halt construction of new settlements in the territories or lift the occupation...
...Middle East since the end of the gulf war. The Secretary has logged 67,500 miles in two months trying to convince the Arabs and Israelis that they should just get together to talk, but his guests would not budge from positions that make a broadly based parley impossible. Israel would not agree to a United Nations presence at such a conference, while Syria said it would not attend without U.N. participation. Israel insisted that the U.S. and Soviet Union be present only for an opening assembly, then allow the Jewish state to negotiate individually with the Arab parties. Syria...
JORDAN U.S. officials think King Hussein badly wants to take part in the talks, in part to get back in Washington's good graces after leaning toward Saddam in the war. But last week the King refused to accept Baker's proposal for a parley for fear of incurring Assad's wrath. Asked whether he would attend a peace conference without Syria present, he replied, "I haven't said that." Would he attend if Syria did too? "I haven't said that, either...
...past year or so, a group of conservative and liberal activists have been meeting quietly for dinner in Washington. Given the guest list, one might expect this parley to produce the sort of verbal food fight that typifies American political debate and alienates so many voters. But the New Paradigm Society, as the participants call their group, isn't looking for arguments; it is searching for bipartisan solutions to America's problems. The fact that they meet at all suggests a sort of harmonic convergence between those who believe that the ideas that powered both the political left and right...
...would be Palestinian representatives, seeking to enhance their political power in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. If the Palestinians could be satisfied, Baker believes, Syria and Jordan could bury their differences with Israel. So could other Arab states like Saudi Arabia, now slated to attend the parley in some adjunct status...