Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next May, when Yasser Arafat intends to declare a Palestinian state regardless of Israel's objections. Indeed, a cynical view might hold that both sides came to Wye in order to position themselves most favorably in U.S. eyes for that confrontation. "Netanyahu's interest remains to have a peace process without an end point, to simply keep the ball rolling and rolling but never get anywhere," said TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer at the start of the talks. "Arafat has lost hope of making significant process peace with this Israeli leadership. He has his eye on next May. Both...
...immediate danger is that a major Hamas attack will goad Netanyahu to back out of conceding land for peace. Palestinian support for the peace process is also at a low ebb. "The mood has changed," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "The optimism has given way to indifference and anxiety. Don't expect Palestinians to celebrate this agreement, because they doubt whether Netanyahu plans to implement any deal. For the Palestinians, Oslo was the compromise, and now this is the compromise of the compromise...
McDonald is in charge of hiring a replacement for Douglas. He said he was still in the process of putting together a job description for her post...
...know it simply as the "Fifty 100s." The details: alternation between a pair of 100-meter sprints and pair of 50-meter sprints, with the former getting faster and faster each time and the short pieces getting slower each time, until 28 lengths are over, at which point the process repeats itself in reverse, with the 50s getting faster and the 100s getting slower. Get that? The end result is three grueling miles...
...talks is unlikely to give Clinton much to crow about: "Even if they succeed it will be a very modest achievement for the amount of time, energy and prestige the President has invested in this effort," says Fischer. "It mostly just ensures that this troubled peace process can continue...