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...only card the Palestinians have," notes TIME's Johanna McGeary. Despite two days of shuttle diplomacy by Dennis Ross, the Palestinians continue to play it on Friday. For the ninth straight day, Palestinians and Israeli police traded rocks and fire-bombs for tear gas and rubber bullets in Hebron. Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Yasser Arafat unleashes militants at will, using violence as a bargaining chip. He and insisted Friday on a decisive crackdown. That seems unlikely. "Arafat has to weigh whether a crackdown is worth the political price he will pay with the right," notes McGeary. "He needs to receive...
...AVIV: Lending support to recent charges by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Yasser Arafat is doing nothing to restrain violence by militant Islamic groups, U.S. officials said they fear that the Palestinian leader has lost control of Hamas, the group that claimed responsibility for the Tel Aviv suicide bombing last Friday. In one-on-one meetings earlier this year, U.S. officials ranging from President Clinton to Acting CIA Director George Tenet took Arafat severely to task for releasing imprisoned Islamic guerillas who had been involved in earlier terrorist attacks against Israelis, The Washington Post reports. While U.S. officials denied...
...member by Hamas, was also killed by the nail-studded explosive device. Israel responded to the attack by barring Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from entering Israel. The attack could further strain the tenuous peace between Arabs and Jews already tested by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence on building new Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. The bombing, the first such attack in over a year, was condemned by Yasser Arafat, but Netanyahu blamed the Palestinian leader for the incident, charging that Arafat had done nothing to discourage militants. This critique may be credible...
...have dynamic people [in your section], it's easy to be a good teacher," said Benjamin H. Wells, a TF for Social Analysis 10, who also received the award. "I'm a law student, so I'm not planning on going into economics. I just...
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to propose that Israel and the Palestinians immediately launch intensive negotiations, to be capped by a Camp David-style summit, to determine the final status of the Palestinian territories rather than proceed with a step-by-step implementation of Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank under the Oslo accords. In an interview with TIME editors on Wednesday, Netanyahu said he presented this idea to King Hussein of Jordan when he visited Jerusalem on Sunday. He characterized Jordanian and American reaction as being "intrigued." He said that the strategy of negotiating phased withdrawals...