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The Wye Agreement |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / WORLD VIEWS |
| Author: Martin Sieff |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,331 Words, 9,960 Characters |
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What they produced was an eight-page memorandum spelling out an exceptionally detailed, three-and-a-half-month timetable of demanding obligations to be fulfilled by both sides to put their tortuous peace process, deadlocked for the previous 19 months, back on track.vbcrlf But within a week of the White House ceremony in which they signed the accord, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat were back expressing the one opinion they really share: mutual distrust of each other.vbcrlfGrand schemesvbcrlf The Clinton administration's Middle East diplomatic strategists, led by chief peace envoy Dennis Ross, had grander things than that in mind when they...
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...s.vbcrlf It was the serious fear of such a collision that motivated the American policymakers who organized Wye. The agreement they pushed through provides the negotiating basis for Israelis and Palestinians to rebuild some trust and avert disaster. But privately, many U.S. diplomats admit it is far too soon to know whether they have succeeded. vbcrlf
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