Word: ebbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final settlement, which are supposed to begin in little more than a year. That idea is under consideration by Rabin's government. Israel would seek to inflate its borders to include many of the settlements and would probably offer the Palestinians full statehood in the remnants. Sa'eb Erakat, Arafat's minister of local government, says the Palestinians are ready to move straight to a final resolution. The P.L.O. will insist on nothing less than the Gaza Strip and the entire West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it hopes to make the Palestinian capital...
...have the accent. I know what JP ad EB are, I know when to say "Boston" and when to say "in town", I know the difference between Townies and Parkies and what radio stations they listen to, and I know where to go to meet somebody under the arches. I have hit the number. I can drive here. I can get you from Fields Corner to Chestnut Hill in 20 minutes flat, taking one-ways the whole route...
Michael K. Mayo '94 was associate chair of The Crimson. JP is Jamaica Plain. EB is East Boston. And "Townies" and "Parkies" come from Charlestown and Hyde Park, respectively...
...story illustrates two phenomena: how Palestinians automatically blame Israel for trouble of any kind, and how they are beginning to unlearn the reflex that has become so deeply ingrained. Says Sa'eb Erakat, a leading P.L.O. figure in Jericho: "It is a huge transition that we must make in our mentality...
...large part of that stubbornness arises from Rabin's confidence that ultimately the U.S. will -- as it always has -- veto any U.N. punishment of Israel. The Palestinians also expect that. Says Sa'eb Erakat, a Palestinian delegate to the Middle East peace talks: "Anybody who thinks that Clinton will start his presidency off by imposing sanctions on Israel is crazy...