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...ethnic hatred have overwhelmed political disagreement. Each vicious act has inspired vicious reprisal, locking the combatants in a circle in which neither is ready or willing to desist first. In the process, both have inflicted wounds that cut to the core of their dilemma: how to coexist. Logic, even self-interest, has been sacrificed to emotions run out of control...
Arafat did not want to be there. He had warned President Clinton that he was not ready for the hard decisions of a final settlement, and the CIA had been advising the Administration for some time that ordinary Palestinians were even less so. Arafat, aging and in uncertain health, was tired of the continuous pressure to compromise principles he held sacred, especially after all the concessions he had already made. His people were fed up with a process that had won them only the shards of an independent state and a life in which checkpoints and expanding Jewish settlements rubbed...
...Palestinian leader sat in Gaza brooding on his next move. The U.S. phoned with an assortment of "bridging" proposals--complicated custodial arrangements dividing holy-site sovereignty with the U.N., with Islamic representatives, even with God. According to a Palestinian negotiator, Arafat angrily told Clinton, "If you want to give sovereignty over al-Aqsa to God, then would you accept that the White House be put under God's sovereignty too?" Palestinians resented summitry that they found humiliating, as if the U.S. were ordering them to comply--and anger bubbled up in the streets. Besieged by political troubles, Barak warned that...
...than 100 dead Palestinians versus six dead Israelis--as an outrage. Worse atrocities than the Ramallah lynchings have been committed before in the conflict, on both sides, but never on film. "Morally, we had to retaliate," said Israeli military chief Lieut. General Shaul Mofaz. "It was a supreme commandment even." In preparing his attack, Mofaz worked from a list of 30 possible targets, all facilities of the Palestinian Authority. Among them was Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah. On a 30-in. flat screen next to his desk, Mofaz checked the live reconnaissance feed from an Israeli drone flying over...
That naked display of violent intolerance added a new dimension to the set-to. In retaliation, Jews in Tiberias vandalized an ancient mosque. Even the funeral of a slain Jewish settler was not spared from assault. As the procession moved along a West Bank road, Palestinians stoned the mourners, some of whom in turn whipped out assault rifles and opened fire...