Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undercut at any time by another incident like the bombing that killed 21 Israelis last month. After reading the Cairo summit's communique last week, a West Bank member of the radical Islamic Jihad warned, ``We are the ones who decide when to attack Israeli targets--not Arafat, not Rabin, not Hussein, not Mubarak.'' Unfortunately, that is all too true...
...Middle Eastern leaders sat down for iftar, the meal that breaks the daylong Muslim fast during the holy month of Ramadan. It is traditionally shared with family and close friends, but at Mubarak's side were not only Jordan's King Hussein and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, but Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as well. His inclusion was meant to show a new level of acceptance for Israel among the Arab leaders who have signed formal peace agreements with the country...
Some officials on both sides said they were encouraged by the procedural push. This week Israel and the Palestinians are to reopen their talks in Cairo, while Arafat and Rabin are to meet at a border crossing on the Gaza Strip. Then on Feb. 12, the summit group's foreign ministers will convene in Washington to move ahead on economic and security measures...
...negotiations are caught in a vicious circle. For the Palestinians, the key issue is what was promised in the 1993 accord: moving Israeli troops out of West Bank towns and opening the way for Palestinian elections. Arafat told Rabin that his mandate must be extended throughout the territories. But Rabin is in no mood to withdraw the army from areas where Israeli settlers need protection...
...foreign ministers of Israel, Jordan and Egypt are scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Warren Christopher. A senior U.S. official today toldTIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllisterthat the only solution to the crisis may lie in boosting the economy of the Gaza Strip -- steering economic aid around Arafat's ineffective government and directly to his restive people...