Word: palestinian
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...issues currently on the table were considered too contentious to tackle. But instead of building the trust and confidence of both sides in the peace process, the last five years of incremental agreements and breakdowns has, in fact, increased mutual suspicion and hostility. That's left issues such as Palestinian statehood, the status of Jerusalem, the future of Israeli settlers on the West Bank and the rights of Palestinian refugees abroad to be finalized in a less-than-conducive atmosphere...
...during overnight talks in Oslo Tuesday they didn't even discuss their substantive difference, only procedural matters. The absence of any sign of progress in bridging the immediate differences over Israeli settlers and Jerusalem has President Clinton worried, because the danger suddenly seems very real that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process - the centerpiece of his foreign policy legacy - could grind to a halt. Failure to agree on peace, of course, wouldn't necessarily result in a return to war. Arafat has already taken the PLO so far down the diplomatic road that the only weapon they have left is pleading...
...peacemaker, but he was left flailing helplessly on the sidelines as the Kosovo conflict took shape and East Timor descended into anarchy. Similarly, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke's previous efforts in the Balkans may have paled in light of the Kosovo war. President Clinton's peacemaking centerpiece, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has been an underwhelming success, and he's been more of a warrior than a peacemaker over the past year, while Pope John Paul II and President Carter haven't been particularly visible recently in mediating conflicts. In light of the competition, the Nobel Committee made an inspired...
...late 1980s, she was one of five American Jews to meet secretly with Palestianian leader Yassir Arafat, helping to restart talks between the U.S. and the Palestinian Liberation Organization that had been stalled for more than a decade...
...those concessions tend to deepen Arafat?s political problem among Palestinians. "Ordinary Palestinians see this as further evidence that no matter how much it protests Israeli demands, in the end the Palestinian Authority always goes along with what Israel wants," says Hamad. The message to Palestinians is that the sovereignty of the state Arafat would proclaim will be limited. "At this rate," says Hamad, "New Jersey will be more independent than Arafat?s Palestine...