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THE LATEST AGREEMENT between Israel and the Palestinians, signed by Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Chairman Yasser Arafat on Saturday in Egypt, was only the latest in a series of agreements between Israel and the Palestinians that breaks no new ground but intends to clarify previous agreements. Given...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author Henry Siegman. Henry Siegman is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 08.09.1999
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Summary:THE LATEST AGREEMENT between Israel and the Palestinians, signed by Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Chairman Yasser Arafat on Saturday in Egypt, was only the latest in a series of agreements between Israel and the Palestinians that breaks no new ground but intends to clarify previous agreements. Given this record, one might have expected the accord signed at Sharm el Sheik, in the presence of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, King Abdullah of Jordan and U.S. Secretary of State Mad- eleine Albright, to have been greeted with a wide yawn. It was not, and rightly so, because a major new element is now present that was not present before. That element is Israel's new prime minister, Ehud Barak.