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...Arab position is a fatal blow precisely because of the role played by the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan throughout the peace process. They have traditionally created the political cover for Arafat to make compromises that his own people find unacceptable; now they're doing the opposite. The motivation of the moderate Arab leaders is twofold: To avoid falling foul of the mounting popular anger at the Israelis and Americans in their own countries and because many of them are faced with large Palestinian populations that they do not want to accommodate forever...
...course, the problem is one for the next administration. And the incoming Bush White House will be handed something a lot more complex and dangerous than a peace process that simply requires a final push, as the Clinton spinmeisters like to suggest. The breakdown over the rights of refugees who've been prevented since 1948 by Israeli law from returning to Israel suggests that both Arafat and his Arab backers have been forced by the anger on the Palestinian and Arab streets to retreat from compromises they may have been prepared to make at an earlier stage of the peace...
...legally able to avoid the checks. But this is part of his legal team's strategy of delaying the process and also of getting Judge Juan Guzman removed from the case on technical grounds, such as procedural matters that he may have carried out incorrectly. Their immediate aim is to stop the doctors from examining Pinochet and to stop Guzman from interrogating the general...
...though, Bush is feeling good, smacking down uppity reporters at the Tuesday press conference and bidding farewell to the Cabinet-making process with an oh-so-W. signoff...
From its start in Oslo several years ago, the entire peace process has been premised on separating Israelis and Palestinians by creating a Palestinian state on territory currently controlled by Israel. While that basic premise is accepted by both sides, they?re unable to agree over the borders of that state and over the fate of those Palestinians outside of it whose parents or grandparents once lived inside Israel itself. Now President Clinton, in the last weeks of his term, has come up with some last-minute proposals to try and engineer a breakthrough. Here are the specifics and what...