What is the problem in the Middle East?
Regional, Analysis, 9/19/1997 Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat warns that unless United States efforts can breathe life into the peace process, “We will enter into an era of confusion where all is possible, including war.” His warning was repeated by Ehud Barak, the leader of Israel’s opposition Labor party, in front of 20,000 Israelis at a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. “War is just around the corner, only a blind man cannot see the threat looming,” he warned, blaming right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line polices. Some 200 Palestinians marched in a refugee camp in Bethlehem on Saturday to mark the anniversary, bearing a coffin draped with a banner reading “Oslo is dead.” A similar demonstration took place in Jordan. The so-called “Oslo” series of interim accords signed in 1993-1995 created Arafat’s self-rule authority and envisaged an end to Israeli occupation of the West Bank before starting negotiations on a final resolution wh
