text: His meetings last week with President Clinton and Yasser Arafat were roundly applauded for rebuilding relationships former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had soured , but David Plotz explains in Slate why Israelis are . In the Washington Post , Henry Kissinger warned Israelis not to leave the United States out of the peace process , while an op-ed piece in the Israeli paper Ha 'aretz cautioned that congressional Republicans , under the sway of the right-wing Israeli Likud Party , will throw spikes into the newly energized peace train .
  
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  After meeting with President Clinton and Yasser Arafat , formerly soured relationships were restored .