Word: summiteering
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...withdrawal from all territories occupied in the 1967 war and its agreement that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to homes in what is now Israel. But any Arab-Israeli comity created by the Arab League's announcement disintegrated on Friday. Israeli Cabinet members agreed that the Beirut summit was a step toward Arab acceptance of Israel's legitimacy, but the terms of Abdullah's proposal remain unacceptable to Israel: Sharon has no intention of giving back all the occupied territories, and the Israelis reject the idea that Palestinian refugees have the right to return to Israel proper. Moreover, Sharon...
...Israelis feel they exercised admirable restraint by not attempting to expel or kill Arafat. They also held their fire until the Arab summit had concluded. Sharon aides say the Prime Minister held back from removing Arafat not only on the advice of his commanders but also out of a sense that the Bush Administration doesn't yet want him to take an irrevocable step. "Washington was in the back of his mind," says a Sharon aide...
Lebanon is making a comeback following a quarter-century of war that left 150,000 people dead. The coming-out party is this week, as kings, princes and presidents from around the Middle East descend on its capital for an Arab summit meeting. There, they are set to endorse a new initiative aimed at achieving peace with Israel, but as Beirutis see it, the real event is the city's symbolic return to world prominence. "Lebanon is better than it was before the war," boasts Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri...
That's debatable, but plainly things are improving. Beirut was an unthinkable venue for a regional summit throughout Lebanon's 1975-90 Christian-Muslim civil war and, for 10 years after, as Israel battled the Lebanese militia Hizballah. With Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000, the country was made whole again and Beirut relatively secure...
...back. Tanks rolled into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah after the Israeli Cabinet agreed to an extended military operation and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had declared Arafat "an enemy." The onslaught, which drew heavy criticism from the U.N. Security Council, came a day after an Arab summit in Beirut, which Arafat was prevented from attending by Israel. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan were also absent. The summit endorsed a Saudi peace plan offering Israel normal relations in exchange for withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war and a resolution of the problem of Palestinian refugees...