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...tunnel crisis in Jerusalem incensed Egyptians, despite President Hosni Mubarak's previous admonitions for patience with Benjamin Netanyahu. Mubarak refused to attend the summit in Washington two weeks ago, saying it would be fruitless. Other Arab leaders, including Jordan's King Hussein, who attended the summit, have since expressed their frustration with Israel. Last week, at a retreat on the Suez Canal, Egypt's leader spoke of disappointments and dangers with TIME Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod and reporter Amany Radwan...
TIME: Why did you boycott the Middle East summit at the White House...
TIME: Will the Middle East economic summit in Cairo next month be able to produce results...
After the Blair House confrontation, the summit was on the edge of disaster. On Wednesday morning Arafat phoned Christopher and threatened to leave Washington. "We were nowhere," says an Administration official. "In fact, we were worse off than when they arrived." Christopher summoned senior Israeli and Palestinian ministers and negotiators to his office in Foggy Bottom. "We've just got to create something," he told them. After three hours, they stitched together the agreement that Clinton announced at his news conference that afternoon: a renunciation of violence and an agreement to open-ended negotiations on easing the Israeli presence...
...peace negotiations. "I am very, very, very upset," Mubarak told TIME's Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod in an interview published in the October 21 issue of TIME Magazine. "I am a man of peace. ... Since Mr. Netanyahu came, everything is frozen." Mubarak, who boycotted the recent Middle East summit at the White House, told TIME that he didn't attend because he knew there would be no real progress made in the meeting. "It was a very important visit," says MacLeod. "Mubarak has developed a friendly relationship with Weizman over the 19 years they have known each other. Weizman...