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...that Hamas and Islamic Jihad were prepared to take a back seat, for the most part. But all along they watched him warily, worried that he would abandon their hard-line tactics in favor of diplomatic dealmaking. When he did, by striking a bargain with former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the Palestinian hard-liners hit out immediately, with the car bomb. It left the Middle East with a deceptively simple question: Would this attempt at a cease-fire, the fourth in five weeks, hold? Or would the most militant arms of the Palestinian cause use it as an excuse...
...there is hope for this latest deal, it was conceived in an armored limousine zipping through an Indian summer night to Gaza City last Wednesday. Shimon Peres, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his founding role in the peace process, sat in the back of the limo with Gilead Sher, Barak's top peace negotiator. The Prime Minister had charged Peres and Sher with pulling Arafat back from the brink. The two men knew the urgency of their task. The previous night, gun battles had raged between the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo and the Palestinian town of Beit Jalla...
...What's your position on the agreement between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres...
...might make it more difficult, but the Israelis say they did it only after they'd decided that the cease-fire Arafat had agreed with Shimon Peres was not being observed. But the Palestinians will see it as a serious escalation because the killing occurred in territory that's supposed to be under Palestinian security control, in which Hussein Abayat is supposed to be free to drive around in a car with guns. But the Israelis complain that he was using that territory as a base from which to attack them...
...same time, it's clear that neither Arafat nor Barak wants an escalation. The fact that the cease-fire brokered last week by Arafat and former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres appears to be taking root despite the continued impetus toward violent clashes suggests both sides may be looking for a way out of their current impasse. But exploring ways to resume a dialogue will likely rewind back a lot further than Camp David. And the idea of Washington sharing the mediation duties with others may not be unappealing to the next U.S. president. After all, as Bill Clinton...