The United States should play a reduced role in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking efforts, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said in newspaper interviews with The New York Times and The Washington Post prior to flying off for Washington on Wednesday. He singled out the role the CIA was asked to play in the Wye accords that were signed last October. Barak told the Times that U.S. officials should return to their “special role as facilitators” and stop acting as “arbitrator, policeman and judge.”
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