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...truce is a practical example of the "rolling cease-fire" concept that Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat plan to discuss when they meet under German auspices in the near future - rather than trying to forge a comprehensive cease-fire throughout the West Bank and Gaza, the two sides would work towards such a cease-fire by establishing such agreements on a town-by-town basis. But as violence raged throughout the West Bank and Gaza, the potential for events elsewhere to reignite the battle of Beit Jala remained high...
...military pressure and exhausting the Palestinians' will to sustain their intifada. He has repeatedly stressed that a political deal of the type discussed at Camp David is out of the question, and speaks instead of some kind of long-term cease-fire. And while Sharon allows his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, to hold talks with Arafat, he stresses at the same time that Arafat is no longer Israel's peace partner...
...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's talk is of a "rolling cease fire" to be implemented on an area-by-area basis - Arafat would rein in the militants in one town, and the Israelis would ease restrictions on that town, creating momentum towards calming the flames...
...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 over whether there's any point in talking at all. Listening to the statements of Arafat and Ariel Sharon, it's easy to see why. Fundamentally, Sharon is focused on achieving security guarantees without ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and Arafat is pursuing an end to the occupation...
...United Nations, Cairo, Jerusalem and Ramallah suggests a renewed attempt to contain the recent escalation of violence, and to follow the Mitchell Report's recommendations on triage for the stricken peace process. German foreign minister Joschka Fischer on Tuesday persuaded Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres to hold a new round of face-to-face talks, under his auspices, at some point in the near future...