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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yasir Arafat and other Palestinian leaders have denounced the statements of the Israeli government and the Chief Rabbis as empty rhetoric, and have called for the complete disarmament of all West Bank settlers. It is clear that some settlers cannot be trusted with weapons and must be disarmed to prevent another killing. But the Hebron massacre is without precedent...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Knowing Where to Place Blame | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...same time, Arafat has been putting great emphasis on the threat that settlers pose to Palestinian civilians. He demanded that U.N. peacekeepers be sent to the territories. He requested a Saturday-night meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the idea, but predictably it broke up without taking any action. Since the U.S. would be sure to veto such a move, the P.L.O. chief was mainly trying to put additional pressure on Jerusalem before the new negotiations begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fury Rules | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

Israelis insist that they understand more clearly than ever that Arafat needs to show his people they are getting something out of the peace process -- and that Jerusalem must make some concessions to help. "Paradoxically ((the massacre)) may hasten the peace process because Israel will be under pressure to finish the negotiations as soon as possible," says Ariel Merari, an expert on political violence. To get an accord, he predicts, Israel will "have to make more concessions than it meant to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fury Rules | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...certain that the high-speed negotiations will even get under way this week. Odds are that Arafat will eventually make good on his private pledge to send his negotiators to Washington, but he started to stall in public. He called the P.L.O. team home to Tunis for weekend consultations before giving Clinton an official reply. The purpose was probably to patch together another consensus within the P.L.O., but it still delayed a commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fury Rules | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...Arafat's maneuvers demonstrate how the massacre has added a troublesome new subject to the negotiating agenda. Instead of postponing a final arrangement on the question of the settlements to talks two years hence, the P.L.O. chief is insisting that the issue be addressed now. He wants to get some kind of guarantees that violence by extremist Jews will stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fury Rules | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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