Channel Two television\'s Arab affairs commentator Ehud Ya\'ari told Arutz-7 today that intense negotiations regarding the end of the current warfare in Israel has been underway for the past several weeks. \"Many people are involved,\" he said, \"including Europeans, Americans, and even the offices of Sharon and Arafat... They are discussing the exact conditions necessary for the cessation of violence. Arafat has been signaling for some weeks now that he is willing to significantly reduce the violence - not stop it altogether - because things are not working the way he wanted. He is facing some very significant problems: Egypt and Saudi Arabia are telling him to stop, and he\'s lost much international support and trust. In addition, the intifada has lost much of its public support, and he\'s had to rely more and more on his organized forces to make attacks, as opposed to people in the street... All his aides have been telling him that the intifada is not working; it\'s true that he doesn\'t always listen to them, but still, he\'s beginning to understand.\" Ya\'ari said that Arafat very much wants to have the meeting with Peres \"as a certificate of kashrut…\"