Word: gaza
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...Shamir is trying to form a narrow coalition with the demanding right wing. To woo it, his caretaker government has been raiding the nation's coffers to build new Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Christian quarter of Jerusalem. "Our leadership is morally unworthy of leading this country," says Uriel Reichman, dean of the law faculty at Tel Aviv University...
Ironically, Shamir's fall was prompted by his own peace initiative, which he launched last spring under heavy pressure to negotiate an end to the intifadeh. The plan called for elections among the 1.7 million Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza to choose representatives who would then negotiate a period | of limited autonomy with Israel. To get the elections off the ground, Baker proposed a formula under which Egypt, Israel and the U.S. would select Palestinian delegates for preliminary talks...
...foreign ministers to select a Palestinian delegation. That group, in turn, will travel to Cairo, where Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be host for preliminary talks in which the Palestinians and an Israeli delegation will set down the ground rules for elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. They will use as their framework a proposal put forward ten months ago by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Balloting will then be held in the occupied territories to elect representatives to negotiate a period of limited self-rule. Within five years, those representatives will begin negotiations...
Even without Sharon, the peace process remains constrained by Shamir's own uncompromising ideology. Last week he avoided ruling out the participation of Palestinians deported from the West Bank and Gaza in peace talks but vowed not to include East Jerusalem Arabs. Said Sharon to Israeli television: "I certainly see myself as a candidate for Prime Minister, and when the day comes, I will run for this post...
...implications of the new statistics, are warning of higher tension and instability in the Middle East. Some of them hint at Soviet-American collusion; most assume that Israeli hard-liners will count on immigrants to help tighten their grip on the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. President Saddam Hussein of Iraq called the arrivals "a catastrophe befalling the Arab world." The government-run Egyptian daily al-Ahram was equally impassioned. "This is a blatant invasion," one of the paper's columnists said, blaming "American and Soviet strategies" that put the rights of Israelis above those...