Word: arba
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Like the Oslo Accords before it, the Wye Memorandum delays discussion of such pressing issues as the status of Jerusalem and the settlements. Last Monday, Israel began to expand the settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, a West Bank Palestinian city with a small presence of Israeli Jews. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also given the go-ahead on an extremely controversial Jewish settlement in Ras Al-Amoud in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem. Over the past 10 years, the Israeli government has implemented settlement plans that have drastically altered the population of East Jerusalem, which...
...people listening that night was Arba Earl Barr, 33, an inmate at the Avon Park Correctional Institution, the same prison in which McDougall was incarcerated. Barr was serving a 114-year sentence on assault and robbery charges. On Oct. 1, say police, Barr, McDougall and 200 other inmates were in the prison yard after dinner, when Barr took the steel post used in a game of horseshoes and beat McDougall to death with it. Prison officials say they had put McDougall under protective custody on the night of the Russ & Bo broadcast because inmates who had been listening told them...
...autonomy accord agreed to by PLO leader Yasser Arafat and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai will present the proposal, which calls for Israeli troops to continue to patrol both the streets of Hebron and the corridor between Hebron and the nearby Israeli town of Kiryat Arba, gradually pulling out if no violence occurs. An Israeli government spokesman said the plan simply increases attention to security issues, but Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, dismissed it entirely as a violation of earlier agreements: "We do not accept anything short of the implementation of the accord...
...autonomy accord agreed to by PLO leader Yasser Arafat and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai will present the proposal, which calls for Israeli troops to continue to patrol both the streets of Hebron and the corridor between Hebron and the nearby Israeli town of Kiryat Arba, gradually pulling out if no violence occurs. An Israeli government spokesman said the plan simply increases attention to security issues, but Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, dismissed it entirely as a violation of earlier agreements: "We do not accept anything short of the implementation of the accord...
...autonomy accord agreed to by PLO leader Yasser Arafat and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai will present the proposal, which calls for Israeli troops to continue to patrol both the streets of Hebron and the corridor between Hebron and the nearby Israeli town of Kiryat Arba, gradually pulling out if no violence occurs. An Israeli government spokesman said the plan simply increases attention to security issues, but Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, dismissed it entirely as a violation of earlier agreements: "We do not accept anything short of the implementation of the accord...