The Mideast: What the Players Are Thinking Now
Peace in flames: A barricade in the West Bank
The uncomfortable reality of today's Middle East is that the "peace process," as we knew it, has run its course, without achieving its goal. The two sides are no closer now to finally resolving their bloodstained conflict than they were when Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shooks hands on the White House lawn in 1993. Bill Clinton is gone, Ehud Barak is no longer in charge and Yasser Arafat is in deep, deep trouble. Incoming prime minister Ariel Sharon says Oslo is dead, its assumptions are meaningless, and any offers made by his predecessor are null and void. So what comes next? TIME correspondents report from the region and from Washington on what to expect in the next phase of the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
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