ARAFAT AND NETANYAHU

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MAY 25–FILE–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, shakes hands with a smiling Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, right, at a meeting at Erez Crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Jan. 15, 1997. A year after Netanyahu’s election the state of affairs between Israel and the Palestinians is tense, the peace process stalled. (AP Photo/File/Mohammed Rawas)