Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current environment in the Gaza Strip has strengthened the appeal of the militants. Palestinians have little, if anything, to show for the achievement of self-rule. The Gazan economy is in ruins. Foreign aid donors refuse to hand over significant funds until Arafat creates a credible system of accounting for the money. Israel, in response to the violence, has limited the number of workers allowed to cross the border daily for work. Just days before the Gaza riots, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned that the Gaza Strip would become "a new, tougher Afghanistan" unless economic conditions improved immediately...
...Arafat's Palestinian Authority has made a poor impression on Gazans. They complain of a disorganized and slow-moving bureaucracy rife with corruption. The glacial pace of negotiations on further autonomy has held up plans for withdrawal of Israeli troops from more Arab cities on the West Bank and for Palestinian general elections...
...that gives weight to the rejectionists' argument that the peace Arafat made with Israel is a bad deal that should be overturned. If this becomes the majority opinion, suggests Sari Nusseibeh, a prominent P.L.O. figure in Jerusalem, "the members of the Authority might just get so depressed that they'll decide it's not worth it, that it makes more sense to say to the people, 'All right, go back to the Israeli occupation.' " An aide to Arafat relates that in a recent conversation, the P.L.O. leader himself talked of the possibility of dismantling his self-rule administration and quitting...
...Arafat's Forces Open Fire...
Palestinian security forces opened fire on Islamic militants at a Gaza City mosque, setting off violent street fighting that shook Yasser Arafat's fragile government. The clashes, in which 15 people were killed and some 200 were wounded, broke out after police and soldiers turned up in force at the mosque in an attempt to prevent members of the fundamentalist group Hamas and Islamic Jihad from marching to protest the arrest of some 200 fellow activists detained after a suicide bomber had killed three Israeli soldiers earlier this month...