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...Yasser Arafat's call for reinforcements Friday confirmed - as if any confirmation was necessary - that the Camp David talks are an uphill battle. The Palestinian leader invited members of opposition groups who had opposed the Oslo Peace process to join him for consultations inside the sequestered compound, citing a need to canvass a wider body of Palestinian opinion. TIME.com phoned West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad in Bethlehem to assess the latest developments...
...Yasser Arafat invited Palestinian opposition leaders for a meeting at Camp David...
...Washington Monday to face down a crucial no-confidence motion in parliament by a mere seven votes. But even before two religious parties and one representing Russian immigrants bolted in protest against Barak's peacemaking style, the gulf between the Israeli leader's final offer and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's bottom line may have been too wide to be bridged by a U.S. administration that will be out of office six months from now. Barak's coalition crisis will only narrow his scope for concessions...
...believes he could sell a final deal to his voters over the heads of their elected representatives in a referendum, but he's going into the summit looking over his right shoulder, and that bodes ill for the prospects of actually achieving an agreement. Because although the ailing septuagenarian Yasser Arafat may be the effective president-for-life of the Palestinians, concern over his own legacy - particularly the fear of being remembered as a traitor rather than a savior - has him going to Washington looking over his left shoulder. He even invited members of two left-wing factions opposed...
...Camp David" was once a code word for Mideast peace breakthroughs, and President Clinton may be hoping that its aura rubs off on Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak when he hosts a make-or-break summit there next week. But while the historic 1977 meeting between President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menahem Begin may have produced an Israeli-Egyptian peace deal that became the crowning achievement of the Carter administration, President Clinton's confab looks like little more than a last-minute Hail Mary pass...