Word: sundeck
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...Sharon treats Abbas with a level of respect he never showed Arafat. At the peace talks in Wye River, Maryland, in 1998, Sharon refused to shake Arafat's hand and pretended not to hear anything the Palestinian leader said to him. But he chatted amicably with Abbas on a sundeck there. "Their personalities are very similar," says Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. peace negotiator who attended the Wye talks. "They're both very courtly, exceedingly polite and soft-spoken." During Abbas' tenure as Palestinian Prime Minister in 2003, Sharon invited him to Jerusalem and stood with him and George...