Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes said he worries that President Clinton’s desire to leave a lasting legacy of Middle East peace will harm Israel in the peace talks with Syria. “We’ve got to pop this euphoric bubble of peace talks and realize that there’s a lot of hard bargaining that has to be done, and the Syrians have to be made to realize they have to make real concessions,” Forbes told reporters.
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