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Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netenyahu, met with US President Clinton in Washington D.C. on Monday. Their purpose was to discuss the problems with the peace process and what can be done to restart it as well as try and hammer out an agreement that would see the Israelis give additional territory to the Palestinian Authority control. The Israelis seem unwilling to part with anything more than a token gesture of land while the Palestinians continue to argue they are due for a substantial portion of the West Bank (on the order of 20 to 30 percent as a minimum).
This is definitely an attitude that the Israelis will have to overcome in order to build trust with the Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Iraqis continue to turn the pressure up on UN inspectors as they continue to deny UN inspectors the right to access sites that the UN considers potential centers for weapons development. The Nuclear Proliferation Council web site has a section devoted to Iraq's recent attempts to gain possession of nuclear weapons and that their efforts have gotten them very close to developing sophisticated weapons. The primary stumbling block preventing Iraq from building nuclear weapons is that it lacks sufficient quantities of highly enriched uranium. Should Iraq be able to procure this material, it would be a matter of time before it would be adapted for use in nuclear weapons. For more information about nuclear proliferation and chemical weapons, you can look at the following web sites which has extensive information about the nature of chemical and nuclear weapons: Go To Page: 1
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