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...GAZA: Yasser Arafat is sending a strong signal that U.S. envoy Dennis Ross better come armed with concrete proposals to move peace talks forward when he arrives in the Middle East Tuesday. In a none-to-subtle push to get the Clinton Administration to aggressively work with Benjamin Netanyahu on a peace settlement, Arafat told reporters he didn't think Ross would bring any new suggestions to the table. "Naturally, the Palestinians are hoping the Americans will come with a fairly aggressive and dynamic proposal which will break the deadlock," reports TIME's Scot MacLeod. "But since this hasn...
...described as the image of Israel as the villain in the current impasse. He ticked off five obligations that the Palestinians had violated for five that the Israelis had fulfilled, and bitterly charged the press with the task of presenting the real truths of Israeli innocence. He accused Yasser Arafat of seeming to tolerate terrorism against Israel. "There will always be fanatics," he said. ?What we expect is not 100 percent success but 100 percent effort. And we have not seen that." Mostly absent from this meticulous accounting was the settlement at Har Homa, the issue on which he likely...
Inexperience disrupted the peace process as well. At the outset, recalls a senior U.S. official, "this group of Israelis assumed they could just roll Yasser Arafat." After an early interview, a Jerusalem Post reporter wrote that it was clear Netanyahu hadn't actually read the details of the Oslo accords. For two months his men refused to deal with Arafat's chief negotiator. Even when pressure from Washington got talks under way, Netanyahu thought he could gain leverage by restricting Arafat's use of his helicopter...
...have," notes TIME's Johanna McGeary. Despite two days of shuttle diplomacy by Dennis Ross, the Palestinians continue to play it on Friday. For the ninth straight day, Palestinians and Israeli police traded rocks and fire-bombs for tear gas and rubber bullets in Hebron. Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Yasser Arafat unleashes militants at will, using violence as a bargaining chip. He and insisted Friday on a decisive crackdown. That seems unlikely. "Arafat has to weigh whether a crackdown is worth the political price he will pay with the right," notes McGeary. "He needs to receive something in return...
...have," notes TIME's Johanna McGeary. Despite two days of shuttle diplomacy by Dennis Ross, the Palestinians continue to play it on Friday. For the ninth straight day, Palestinians and Israeli police traded rocks and fire-bombs for tear gas and rubber bullets in Hebron. Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Yasser Arafat unleashes militants at will, using violence as a bargaining chip. He and insisted Friday on a decisive crackdown. That seems unlikely. "Arafat has to weigh whether a crackdown is worth the political price he will pay with the right," notes McGeary. "He needs to receive something in return...