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...Sharm el-Sheik summit Bill Clinton held with Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Monday and Tuesday was supposed to get the combatants on the streets disengaged, the siege lifted and the peace talks started once again. The day after the summit, Barak pulled his forces back in some places and Arafat curbed some of the violence. But the fighting is flaring up again and the cease-fire is hanging by a thin thread. During her flight back Wednesday from the marathon Middle East talks, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sat down with TIME...
...light of such situations as that which led to the Ramallah lynching, where his security forces stand between angry Palestinians and the object of their anger. This suggests that those who'll want to continue the intifada will have plenty of opportunity. Indeed, clashes continued throughout the two-day summit and after the announcement of the cease-fire...
...Tuesday's deal was hastily cobbled together, to be sure, with vague promises - for instance, that the U.S. "would consult" over the next two weeks over restarting the peace process - offering very little by way of satisfying President Clinton's hope that the summit could revive comprehensive peace talks. But then the price of an explicit failure at the summit would have been to escalate the conflict, so once gathered the leaders had little choice but to fudge at least some of their differences...
...There is one more wild card: Both camps are looking over their shoulders at this week's Middle East peace summit. If President Clinton comes home bearing good news, Gore will want to maneuver himself into the spotlight as a key member of the Clinton foreign relations team - while simultaneously distancing himself from the diplomatic failures associated with the renewed violence. Meanwhile, look for the governor to paint the clashes as a tragedy that might have been avoided by a more comprehensive and forward-thinking approach to foreign policy...
President Clinton is currently attempting to organize an emergency peace summit between Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. (Please see Associated Press story, page...