President Clinton sent a message to Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai commending his peacemaking efforts. Israeli analysts said the message may have been a snub to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A relative dove in Netanyahu’s hawkish Cabinet, Mordechai reportedly held several recent secret meetings with Palestinian officials in an effort to maintain security cooperation despite the freeze in implementing the Wye accord.
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