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...being optimistic. Nevertheless, Clinton ordered Albright to cut short her trip with him to Russia and the Ukraine last weekend and rush to Jerusalem. Talks between Israel and Syria on returning the Golan Heights were dead in the water. But negotiations between Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser Arafat on ending their people?s half-century conflict were still alive...
...Although some 400,000 Palestinians remain in Lebanon, a number of them armed, the PLO was driven out by the Israeli capture of Beirut in 1982. So Yasser Arafat?s Palestinian Authority has no direct stake in Lebanon, but developments there could impact on his peace process with Israel...
...President Clinton worried, because the danger suddenly seems very real that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process - the centerpiece of his foreign policy legacy - could grind to a halt. Failure to agree on peace, of course, wouldn't necessarily result in a return to war. Arafat has already taken the PLO so far down the diplomatic road that the only weapon they have left is pleading for U.S. intercession. Unfortunately for the Palestinians, Barak knows that...
...interest in a confrontation with Jordan. The last time Palestinian exiles and their descendants, who now make up a majority of the Jordanian population, challenged the Hashemite throne ? in the "Black September" of 1970 ? the response was swift and brutal, leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and the PLO in exile. "Hamas will maintain that its struggle is with Israel and it has no quarrel with any Arab state," says Hamad. So while the latest clampdown signals an end to friendly relations between Jordan and Hamas, it?s unlikely to start...
Arafat is currently both president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the PLO, but those positions may be separated once he leaves the scene. "The PA would govern Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, while the PLO would continue to act as a representative of the Palestinian diaspora spread across the Arab world," says Hamad. But fear of a challenge to his leadership has restrained Arafat from cultivating candidates for either position, and even the procedures for choosing a replacement are far from clear. "The only certainty," says Hamad, "is that whoever replaces him will be 100 percent...