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...suicide bombings. But Arafat canceled plans to send his usual troubleshooter, Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Mahmoud Abbas, and sent lower-level officials instead. Hamas responded by pulling back its top man, Khaled Meshaal. Even the limited progress reported at the meeting was condemned in a communique issued in Gaza by Hamas and Islamic Jihad--joined, significantly, by the Ahmed Abu Reesh Brigades and the Salahuddin Brigades, both splinter militias of Fatah. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...Foreign Minister and erudite scholar whose oratory captured the world's sympathy for the Jewish state in its early years; near Tel Aviv. In a hawkish environment, Eban urged a conciliatory approach toward the Arabs. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, Eban advocated withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza. Remembered for his witty gibes, Eban often said the Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an oppor-tunity." Last year Eban was decorated with the Israel Prize, the nation's highest honor...
...Labor just wants a dovish alternative to the hard line. They can count on Mitzna for that. As Prime Minister, he promises, he'd restart negotiations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. If there was no peace agreement after a year of talks, he'd unilaterally withdraw from the entire Gaza Strip and evacuate the 7,000 Israeli settlers there. It's a sharp change from Ben-Eliezer, who as Sharon's Defense Minister oversaw massive military operations against the Palestinians. But it seems just as pointedly at odds with the Israeli mood. Instead of bringing centrist Israelis back to Labor...
...similar demonstration took place in Harvard Square last February, when activists dressed in military fatigues re-enacted an Israeli checkpoint to protest Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem...
...popular demand for change. That has given Fayyad, a former official of the International Monetary Fund with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas, the confidence to order the scrubbing of the Authority's books. Says Karim Nashashibi, the IMF's representative in the West Bank and Gaza: "There has been more progress in financial reform than in any of the other reforms...