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PA President Yasser Arafat has agreed to meet with President Bill Clinton at the White House, following talks in Tunis and Cairo and contacts with various Arab leaders. Arafat emphasizes that any discussions with Clinton must be based on mutual understanding and that Palestinian requests and readiness for consultations must
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has agreed to proceed with President Clinton's Mideast peace proposals, but Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat's conditional acceptance has raised concerns about the feasibility of reaching a final compromise in the next two and a half weeks. Arafat's reservations on
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Almost 75 years ago, 750,000 people fled the fighting that started with the Arab attack on the newly created state of Israel in 1948, and since then, nearly four million Palestinians have cherished the "right of return" enshrined in United Nations Resolution 194. This right has become
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US President Clinton has proposed a Middle East peace plan that calls for significant concessions from both Israel and the Palestinians. The plan, unveiled last weekend, seeks to establish a Palestinian state with defined borders, offer Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, and grant Palestinian refugees the right to return
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Frustrated efforts to form a coalition government in Israel continued Sunday, as Prime Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader Ariel Sharon remained divided over the future of the Middle East peace process. A luncheon meeting between the two at Barak's official residence failed to bridge their differences, with
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As negotiations between Labour Party leader Ehud Barak and Likud leader Ariel Sharon continue, recent polls indicate a significant shift in favor of Benyamin Netanyahu as a potential Prime Minister. A Gallup poll published in Maariv shows Netanyahu leading with 47%, while Barak trails behind at 30%, with 7% of
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US President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Barak, and Palestinian leader Arafat concluded the summit after 20 hours of negotiations, yielding an unsigned "Statement of Understandings" outlining measures to end the violence. However, fighting and casualties continued to escalate in the following days, testing a self-imposed 48-hour Israeli deadline
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Peace negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat have reached a stalemate, with significant implications for the future of the peace process. President Clinton's emergency meeting at the JolieVille Golf Resort, attended by world leaders including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and UN Secretary
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Diplomatic efforts appear to be paying off as Israelis and Palestinians have backed away from confrontation, marking the first time in 12 days that violence subsides. A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was critically wounded in a street battle between Israeli troops and rock-throwing Palestinian protesters in Gaza, but Israeli commanders have
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Faced with the escalating violence and deteriorating peace accords, President Clinton has called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to convene an urgent summit meeting in Egypt, where he hopes to meet with Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian leaders to find a way to stop the escalating violence and salvage the peace
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Violence escalated in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as in Arab towns inside Israel, following a brief lull in the five-day-long conflict. The death toll rose to at least 54, including Israeli and Palestinian civilians, as each side accused the other of provoking the renewed violence. Israeli
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As tensions between Israeli and Palestinian forces continue to rise, Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel has announced that peace talks are "on the shelf" due to the ongoing violence. Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has called for an emergency Arab summit meeting, while Secretary of State Madeleine K.
