Word: camp
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...Barak received a boost Thursday when former Prime Minister Shimon Peres bowed out of the race, failing to secure the backing of the leftist Meretz party. Barak supporters had urged Peres to back out to avoid splitting the peace camp and handing an easier victory to Sharon - but the fact that many polls showed Peres having a better chance than Barak of beating Sharon is an indicator of the scale of the challenge facing the prime minister...
...camp out together," he said...
Having stood his ground at Camp David, Yasser Arafat is unlikely to back down now despite warnings that his window of opportunity - in the form of President Clinton and Ehud Barak - is closing. Senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders are to meet Tuesday in Washington for an eleventh-hour attempt to broker a peace agreement, as the violence that has claimed more than 360 lives over the past 12 weeks rages unabated. But the eleventh hour, of course, tolls not for Arafat, but for the Clinton administration, whose tenure expires on January 20, and for Ehud Barak's caretaker government, which...
...over the legal obstacles to his candidacy - and President Clinton would dearly like to close out on a note of triumph. The specter of a right-wing Israeli government and a more distant Bush administration will be used to tempt Arafat to conclude a final peace deal while his Camp David partners are still in place, although there's also considerable Palestinian skepticism about being stampeded into compromises with lame ducks. Palestinian sources have indicated that the Washington talks have been convened under pressure from the Americans and Israelis, and have suggested that Arafat is wary of a repeat...
...administration may be used by Israeli and U.S. officials this week to present the current round of talks as Yasser Arafat's last chance to achieve a deal over Palestinian statehood. But it's unlikely that the Israelis will be able to offer much more than they did at Camp David - and the political pressure against Arafat's accepting even that offer is considerably greater now that Palestinians have been burying about 25 of their young people a week since the end of September in what they've defined as a battle for Jerusalem...