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[00:07.68]Palestinian and Israeli negotiators plan to re-start

[00:13.71]their peace talks on Sunday.

[00:16.88]The goal is to reach a final peace agreement before September thirteenth

[00:24.08]That is the day Palestinian President yasser Arafat says

[00:30.01]he is set to declare a Palestinian state.

[00:34.87]On Friday,developments centered on comments

[00:40.12]by President Chinton to Israeli television.

[00:43.96]Mister Clinton said it would be a "big mistake"for the Palestinians

[00:50.49]to declare statehood without Israeli agreement.

[00:55.12]He warned that the palestinians would lose Americn aid

[01:01.15]However,he said he is sure the two sides can reach an agreement

[01:07.92]Mister Clinton described Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak

[01:13.77]as"more creative and more courageous 1"

[01:17.90]than Mister arafat at the Camp David talks.

[01:22.02]He also said he will consider moving the American Embassy

[01:28.27]from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.Palestinians oppose that idea.

[01:34.90]They reject Israel's claim to all of Jerusalem as its capital.

[01:40.94]They want the eastern part of the city to serve as the capital

[01:46.58]of a Palestinian state.

[01:49.40]The future of Jerusalem was the most difficult issue

[01:55.04]at the talks that ended Tuesday at Camp David.

[02:00.01]The talks at the presidential home near Washington lasted fifteen days

[02:07.16]No agreement was reached.

[02:10.90]Still,President Clinton said both sides made real progress.

[02:17.14]He noted 2 that for the first time they discussed

[02:21.87]all of their most extreme differences.

[02:25.71]They reportedly reached compromises on the issues of Palestinian refugees

[02:32.53]and the borders of a  possible Palestinian state.

[02:37.49]Is rael is said to have talked of surrendering 95% of the West Bank

[02:44.65]and all of Gaza.And,Israel reportedly agreed to admit

[02:51.86]about 100,000 Palestinian refugees.

[02:56.72]The refugees would get money from a proposed international fund.

[03:03.25]Mister Clinton says the Palestinian team at Camp David also supported

[03:11.19]the idea of paying Jews who were forced to flee Arab countries.

[03:18.01]Thousands of cheering Palestinians welcomed Yasser Arafat

[03:23.65]on his return to Gaza Wednesday.

[03:27.28]Mister Barak faced a much different reaction at home.

[03:32.92]He had lost his parliamentary majority before the Camp Dacid talks

[03:40.26]Just over half the Israelis questioned by the Jerusalem Post newspaper

[03:47.60]think he offered too much to the Palestinians.

[03:52.57]Three-fourths of those questioned said he should call new elections

[03:58.81]or bring the main opposition 3 Likud party into the government.

[04:05.05]Israeli and Palestinian negotiators plan to meet Sunday at the border

[04:13.00]between Israel and Gaza.

[04:16.24]On Monday,the Israeli parliament is to vote on a measure to withdraw

[04:23.44]support from Mister Barak's minority coalition 4.

[04:28.17]President Arafat has urged Israelis to support their prime minister.