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...media are conducting an anti-government campaign. MIDDLE EAST No Withdrawal Israel canceled talks with Palestinians aimed at implementing a plan for an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel Razak Yahya was abandoned after violence hit the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Ministry said. Hours before the ministers were to meet, Israel sent its forces to foil what it claimed was an attempt to bring arms into Gaza by sea. Four Palestinian civilians were killed. INDIA Wanted: U.S. Exec...
...Abdel Hadi Palace stinks of urine and damp. A little girl with a dirt-smeared face shuffles barefoot in the muddy courtyard. The women of the Zakari family lean out of their window, an Ottoman arch whose grey stone is pitted by the weather of 250 years. The place was built for one of the richest families in Nablus. Now it serves as rented accommodation for the city's poorest, hidden in the heart of the Casbah. "It's not a palace anymore," says Najah Zakari, the mother of one of six large families that squeeze into quarters once meant...
When the Israelis came to the Abdel Hadi Palace in one of their recent forays into the Casbah in search of militants, they took away Zakari's son Khalil, 21. Now standing by the pomegranate tree, Khalil tells how he was detained two days in a camp outside Nablus with most of the other young men of the Casbah, huddling without shelter. He says he was beaten when he refused to recite a crude rhyme that professed love for Israeli troops and cursed the genitalia of Palestinian mothers. He finally recited it to avoid being hit again. Weeks later...
Stylishly dressed and cosmopolitan, Salah Abdel Shafi, 39, sits in his brother's elaborate hotel overlooking the Gaza beach. As he describes the new political movement he is starting with other secular Palestinian intellectuals, the economist also acknowledges that he is considering ditching the whole project and resettling in Germany, where he was educated. His ambivalence is understandable, given the magnitude of the task he has set for himself. Abdel Shafi wants to cultivate moderation within a community that is brimming with bile. The aim of his movement is to create a new Palestinian agenda that will not frighten...
...something that looks less likely with each new terror attack, like the Hebrew University bombing last week that killed seven. Second, rather than be relegated to a symbolic role, Arafat plans to step aside as President and run for the Prime Minister's job himself. He has suggested Haider Abdel Shafi, a respected Gazan, for the ceremonial presidency. Abdel Shafi was unavailable for comment, but aides close to Arafat say the Palestinian leader's aim is to give the impression of acceding to the U.S. plan while retaining power for himself...