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insisted on recovering virtually all of
the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
No Concessions
Hours before Albright arrived Tuesday,
Arafat made it clear that he would make
no new concessions in the talks aimed
at reaching a final peace accord. The
preceding day, he repeatedly said there
is no point to holding the summit now
There was even tougher rhetoric
from Arafat on Sunday, when he
warned of a possible new intifada, or
Palestinian uprising, and asserted he
would soon unilaterally declare an
independent Palestinian state.
But there were also signs of cooper-
ation before Albright's visit. There was
a meeting Sunday night over dinner
and drinks that brought Arafat
and his top aides together with
Barak's main negotiators, Public
Security Minister Shlomo Ben-
Ami and lawyer Gilad Sher.
Reinforcing the possibility
that there is more cooperation
than meets the eye, Ben-Ami
spent time Monday briefing
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritu-
al leader of the Shas Party, on
the state of the talks with the
Palestinians.
For the most part, however,
this was a week of discordance.
Sharansky was foremost
among Barak's ministers sound-
ing dissonant notes, but there were
others.
Sharansky called over the weekend
for a national unity government, with
the opposition Likud joining the Labor-
led coalition. This government, he
argues, enjoying wide popular support,
would be able to set "red lines" beyond
which Israel would not go in the final-
status talks with the Palestinians.
pursue the negotiations with a new
sense of urgency, as the sand in
Clinton's White House hourglass inex-
orably runs out.
Key Cabinet doves, among them
Yossi Beilin of Labor and Amnon
Shahak of the Center Party, publicly
Urged Barak this week to press ahead
toward the summit, despite the grow-
ing unrest within his government.
Clinton aspires to be able to make
such a declaration as his presidency
nears its end.
Barak also has this aspiration, cal-
culating that however perilous his pre-
sent political circumstances, a historic
declaration of this kind would garner
sweeping support in a referendum.
Arafat, elderly and unwell, dearly
wants to lead his people to indepen-
Arafat's
pre-bargaining:
No new concessions,
threat of another
intifada.
Flight Of Hawks
Yitzhak Levy, the leader of the National
Religious Party, another coalition part-
ner, echoed Sharansky's resignation
threat. Along with other ministers,
some from Barak's own party, Levy
complained that Barak and his negotia-
tors were keeping the Cabinet in the
dark about the progress of the talks.
Foreign Minister David Levy was
among the disgruntled Cabinet mem-
bers. This week, he upbraided "certain
ministers" for adopting negotiating
positions that leave Israel, in his view,
"denuded of all our assets."
For his part, Barak is trying to
patch things up with Levy, to keep the
NRP and Sharansky on board for as
long as possible, and at the same time
dente and peace before passing on the _
mantle he has worn for more than
three decades.
If Albright sees the prospects as fair,
or even only moderate for having a
meaningful summit, Clinton, with lit-
tle to lose and much to gain, will issue
the invitations.
Barak is pressing for a date as early
as Wednesday, July 5. The
Palestinians, who insist such a date
would be premature, would nonethe-
less not balk at a Clinton invitation.
A summit would be scheduled to
last 10 days or even two weeks, accord-
ing to Israeli sources. Clinton would be
on hand daily, as he was during the
1998 Wye Rivet negotiations, and as
President Jimmy Carter was at the orig-
inal Camp David peace talks in 1978.
Some Israeli and U.S. sources spoke
this week of a possible "series" of sum-
mits — apparently seeking to reduce
the risks and dangers should the pro-
posed summit conference fail. But
military circles in Israel warn that no
gimmickry will stop the wave of vio-
lence that could engulf the Palestinian
territories — and spill across the pre-
sent border-lines — should the sum-
mit fail.
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