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...Yasser Arafat has been meeting Israeli officials, and there's been a flurry of diplomacy throughout the region to try and restart Israeli-Palestinian talks. What are the prospects...
...that sense, their very presence is an acknowledgment of the failure of the Oslo peace process and its mechanisms. Although Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met U.S. envoy Dennis Ross in Morocco overnight, the idea that Israelis and Palestinians will rush to conclude a deal before President Clinton leaves office on January 20, and before Israel goes to the polls the following month, may be little more than wishful thinking...
...Barak said, let's rumble. But Barak had better watch his corner. Top names in his Labor Party are sneaking around the Knesset lining up support for taking over the party leadership before the likely May election. Barak's plan is to cut a peace deal with Palestinian leader YASSER ARAFAT, making the election a referendum on peace. If he doesn't do a peace deal, says former Prime Minister SHIMON PERES, Barak will surely be challenged, most likely by Knesset Speaker AVRAHAM BURG and Interior Minister HAIM RAMON...
...Even as violence looks set to escalate in the coming days, Yasser Arafat is also facing mounting pressure from his own people to rein in Palestinian shooters. The mayors of Bethlehem, Beit Jalla and surrounding Palestinian areas have implored the Palestinian leader to ensure that gunmen stop using their residential neighborhoods for cover from which to fire on the Israelis. Residents of Beit Jalla have made no secret of their unhappiness with the continued shooting from the neighborhood towards the adjacent Israeli neighborhood of Gilo, believing that Palestinians are gaining nothing for the heavy price they're being forced...
...While Israeli leaders such as Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu are pressing Prime Minister Ehud Barak to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Palestinians - for example, taking advantage of the fact that Israel still controls water and electricity supplies to the territories under Yasser Arafat's control - others share the concerns of international monitors over the long-term effect of such a strategy. After all, the declining economic circumstances make it a lot easier for Hamas to recruit young men as suicide bombers, its promise of the paradise of martyrdom holding considerably more allure amidst squalor and hopelessness than...