1. And holding Mideast peace summits. 2. A troubled peace summit neared a humiliating collapse Wednesday night as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Palestinian leaders, packed his bags and threatened to leave. 3. After staring at the prospect of a failed peace summit, Clinton said, neither Arafat nor Barak wanted to return to the tumultuous region without a peace accord. 4. By midnight, the faltering peace summit had been resuscitated. 5. Clinton hosts a peace summit among Arafat, Rabin, King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. 6. Clinton signed the short-term increase just before leaving for a peace summit in Egypt. 7. Clinton himself has already hosted two major Mideast peace summits. 8. During the interview, Bush was asked whether he, too, might convene a peace summit. 9. In the interview that followed, Clinton also talked about the peace summit, despite a strict US-imposed gag rule. 10. Israel also reopened international borders to Palestinians Wednesday after the agreement reached at the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit, an Israeli spokesman said. |