Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disagreement about how best to push the negotiations forward. Everyone was impressed by Arafat's apparent willingness to find a deal. But the Americans were split over how to handle Netanyahu. Albright, who battled with the Israeli Prime Minister last May and lost when she gave him an ultimatum about moving troops from the West Bank, was growing increasingly frustrated with Israeli stalling. Friday night, as the Israelis celebrated the Sabbath, Albright was host to a small, Arabs-only dinner. "I really understand the pain and aspirations of your people," she said in a toast. Chief Middle East negotiator Dennis...
...threat was timed to make the morning papers back home (where Wye was judged so boring it no longer led the TV news). American officials figured Netanyahu was bluffing, but when Albright saw the luggage, she was furious: "You don't give the President of the United States an ultimatum!" Netanyahu, backing down, protested that he had been asleep and hadn't authorized any departure. (In fact, American officials said, he had given the orders to load the helicopters for the flight to Andrews Air Force Base.) The blowout wasn't a total surprise: U.S. officials had written memos predicting...
...said he strongly approves of the actions the international community is taking and especially of the United States ultimatum on the Yugoslav president...
...will continue to wonder, though, what it means to be a believer when believing is no longer en vogue. And I will confidently, if quietly--for I have no interest in proselytizing--continue to echo Joshua, who gave that definitive ultimatum, which I paraphrase: "If it does not please you to serve the Lord, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Harvardites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua...
...Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. "We would tell them, 'You're on your own,'" says a senior White House staff member. But the problem for Clinton is how to make good on that threat yet avoid getting hammered at home. The last time Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT gave Netanyahu an ultimatum--in May she told him to show up in Washington prepared to accept the U.S. proposal--he stood her up and instead unleashed powerful Jewish groups in the U.S. that blasted the Administration for bullying him. Albright, who has had more than half-a-dozen phone conversations with Netanyahu...