Word: gaza
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...Palestinian villages, shooting and killing or maiming hundreds of innocent Palestinians, including children, destroying thousands of Palestinian homes in acts of collective punishment, beating innocent Palestinians of all ages, physically and sexually torturing Palestinian prisoners and daily humiliating and terrorizing Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza...
...expressed by Foreign Minister Farouk Shara -- "total withdrawal for total peace" -- is not very clear. I don't know what total peace is. I do know what total withdrawal is. It is not limited to Syria and Israel. It also concerns the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...Sept. 23. After five years of the intifadeh and countless strike calls, many Palestinian shopkeepers have begun to ignore the demands to close up. Fatah, Arafat's faction within the P.L.O., even instructed Palestinians to conduct business as usual on Sept. 23. Nonetheless, the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip shut down on the appointed day, proving that the hard-liners are able to wield considerable influence over a % frightened population...
...Madrid 10 months ago resumed in Washington, Palestinians and representatives of Israel's new Labor-led government got down to serious discussions over a substantive matter: how a proposed elected council might be empowered to bring a measure of self-government to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Eager to tone down animosity, Jerusalem's negotiators have stopped referring to the West Bank by the biblical names Judea and Samaria...
None of which signals the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Israel is nowhere near meeting Syria's demand that it get all of the Golan back. On the issue of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, there is a wide gap between the Israeli proposal for an "administrative" council and Palestinian demands for a "legislative" body, an embryo parliament for a Palestinian state. But gone are the days when, as Palestinian delegate Ghassan Khatib puts it, "proposals were prepared for confrontation, not agreement." Propaganda ideas are yielding to suggestions that might be negotiable. Someday. Maybe...