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...Pakistan's ruler. "He is desperate not to be seen as the person who wrecked prospects for an Indo-Pakistan dialogue," says Hussain, the defense analyst. "This can give him tremendous legitimacy." Former Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik, once a behind-the-scenes negotiator for ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, says Musharraf is the best person for India to deal with. "Under a civilian government you cannot convince all constituencies," he says...
...return to homes in Israel lost during Mideast wars. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak would have to make concessions as well: Palestine would gain sovereignty over East Jerusalem neighborhoods and the top of Temple Mount, a holy site sacred to Jews and Arabs, who call it Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary. Clinton folded his notes and looked up. "If you want to reach an agreement, I think that the only way to get it done is to accept this," he said...
...proposals - which are not in written form - reportedly grant the Palestinians sovereignty over Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif (called the Temple Mount by Jews) while the Israelis would have sovereignty over the Western Wall (the only remaining piece of the Second Temple). The proposal also calls for the resettlement of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Palestinian-controlled land rather than in Israel. And so Barak went back to Jerusalem to huddle with his cabinet and security chiefs, and Arafat went off to Cairo by himself...
...Arafat, of course, unlike Barak or Clinton, doesn't have a changing of the guard to worry about. But politics is politics, and if Arafat doesn't bring home a deal that includes the Haram al-Sharif and tackles the very touchy refugee problem to his own hawks' satisfaction, he'll go down in Palestinian infamy and quite possibly be blown up himself by militants. Or so he says. This is Middle East peace, not some Beltway budget battle, and Arafat is under some very serious pressure to come out on top at the negotiating table...
...fact, any deal Barak brings home with a Palestine "entity" in it may be spiked; Arafat, meanwhile, says if he comes back without Haram al Sharif, militant Muslims will spike him. Clinton knows even two signatures won't mean a thing until a lengthy separation and stabilization process is begun and ended (that'd be George W. Bush...