Summit Proposals Appear in Play as Mideast Talks Start
Far-reaching proposals for a permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace did not necessarily die when the Camp David summit failed, negotiators said Sunday, launching efforts to bring the two sides’ leaders back together.
When the summit failed last week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said all proposals on the table--including control of Jerusalem and the future of Palestinian refugees--were now “invalid.” But on Sunday, in their first meetings since the Maryland summit, negotiators suggested that the groundbreaking U.S.-brokered proposals were still in play.
According to an Israeli television report, Barak told Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting that Yasser Arafat turned down a U.S. plan that would have satisfied most of the Palestinian leader’s demands in East Jerusalem--but would have delayed an agreement over sovereignty of a mosque compound in Jerusalem’s walled Old City for 20 years.
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