Word: gaza
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Three decades later, they missed their next great opportunity when the Camp David accords offered them an end to Israeli occupation, autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza, and negotiations that might even have produced a state of their own. The Palestinians rejected that...
...years later, and the Palestinians may finally have proved Abba Eban wrong. The stunning agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. on the so-called Gaza-Jericho First plan is in spirit and even in some detail and language a resurrection of the Camp David plan that they once so bitterly scorned...
That is what the Israeli opposition claims, and given Arafat's history, it is hardly an implausible claim. In the eyes of Likud, a P.L.O. entity in the West Bank and Gaza would be a kind of mini-Syria in its midst, an implacable enemy building a deadly new platform for the final showdown with the Jews...
Others foresee in the West Bank and Gaza not a mini-Syria but a mini- Lebanon: a hopelessly fractured and heavily armed society riven by civil war (here between the secularist P.L.O. and Islamic fundamentalists) simply dissolving into anarchy and chaos. Some are even predicting that Arafat may not live very long if he returns to Gaza, stronghold of the Islamic Hamas militants who revile him and reject any hint of coexistence with Israel...
Adnan sat in the sand with some of his Palestinian neighbors just a few yards away from an open sewer in the Gaza Strip's Shati Camp and promised the destruction of Israel. "Yasser Arafat means nothing to me," he said. "I want all of Palestine back." Adnan, who gave only his first name for fear of arrest by military authorities, lost his job in Israel last March when the government sealed off the violence-riddled Gaza Strip. "My parents were thrown out of their town in 1948," says Adnan, 25. "Any Russian Jew can live there...