Word: summiteering
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...first the summit was to be held in Cairo. But Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to be host unless Netanyahu agreed in advance to some substantive concessions, which he did not. Since speed was essential, Clinton accepted Secretary of State Warren Christopher's suggestion that the U.S. President convene the summit in Washington. The invitations went out. But Arafat delayed his response as long as he could, hoping for some sign of concessions from Netanyahu...
...much of Monday, Sept. 30, in the grand salon of Mubarak's summer residence near Alexandria. He said he felt he could go to Washington only if Mubarak joined him there. But Mubarak did not believe Netanyahu would agree to any concessions, and he declined an invitation to the summit. Mubarak, aides indicated, was no longer willing to take domestic political risks for a peace process stalled by Israel. But the Egyptian President insisted that Arafat go anyway. "Mubarak spent three hours convincing him he should," says an Egyptian official. "Mubarak told him, 'You have a cause to fight...
Netanyahu for his part had readily agreed to the summit--but not to concessions. He made it clear to reporters on his plane on the way over that he assumed Clinton would press hard for concessions. Presumably those would start with closing the archaeological tunnel that had touched off the violence and follow with a firm date for redeploying Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, a step already six months overdue. He was more than ready to resist...
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...