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The diplomatic front, of course, is not showing convincing signs of restoring the peace any time soon. It's not yet clear when Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres will meet under German auspices, let alone whether the Palestinian leader and the Israeli foreign minister have anything new to discuss. Today...
The proposed Berlin meeting has been slammed by Israeli leaders, including key members of Sharon's cabinet, as rewarding Arafat for violence. And on the Palestinian side, many of Arafat's top advisers have dismissed talking to Peres as a waste of time, pointing out that he has no mandate...
It's not hard to find reasons why the proposed Berlin talks between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres will fail to bring peace to the Mideast. For one thing, there are no substantially new ideas on the table, and for another each man faces considerable skepticism in his own camp...
Although nobody's going to get overly optimistic about yet another round of diplomatic efforts to restart previously stalled cease-fire efforts, a new flurry of diplomatic semaphores from Washington, Berlin, the United Nations, Cairo, Jerusalem and Ramallah suggests a renewed attempt to contain the recent escalation of violence, and...
The German foreign minister has responded positively to a "phased cease-fire" currently being proposed by Peres. Designed to get around the stalemate over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's insistence that seven full days of calm must precede any implementation of the Mitchell recommendations, Peres's proposal suggests that a...