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...Israel's right wing. For on the world stage, Arafat gives no quarter; at the U.N. conference on racism in South Africa last week, he condemned what he called Israel's "colonial, racist plot" against the Palestinians. Settlers who live in Israeli outposts in the West Bank and Gaza have long considered the Prime Minister one of their champions. Almost three months ago, Sharon visited the hospital bedside of a five-month-old boy injured by a stone thrown at his parents' car as they drove to their home in the Shilo settlement. The baby died soon after, and Sharon...
...have always emphasized that I am a peacenik, not a pacifist. I never suggested that if Palestinians seriously want to kill the Jews, we should let them do it. I always suggested that the Palestinians deserve an independent state of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza. As things stand now, I have the impression that they want more than that. I do not accept the idea that the universal right of self-defense does not apply to Israel. If the Palestinians only want an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza, I would grant them such a state...
...armistice" similar to the one Israel signed with Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon in 1949 - essentially, a long-term cease-fire designed to contain an unresolved conflict. Those close to him maintain he's not prepared to concede more territory than the 42 percent of the West Bank and Gaza, broken up into a camouflage pattern of discrete cantons surrounded by Israeli soldiers and settlers, that the Palestinians currently control...
...issue may be instructive of the conference's faults, because it's essentially a debate in which each side seeks to minimize or eliminate the other's claims to legitimacy. Israel and its supporters refuse to even contemplate a comparison between the Palestinian plight in the West Bank and Gaza and the condition of black South Africans under apartheid. And the Palestinians and their supporters are determined to diminish the significance of the Holocaust. Plainly, if they'd simply listen to each other, they may have a better idea of how why their peace efforts thus far have failed...
...truce is a practical example of the "rolling cease-fire" concept that Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat plan to discuss when they meet under German auspices in the near future - rather than trying to forge a comprehensive cease-fire throughout the West Bank and Gaza, the two sides would work towards such a cease-fire by establishing such agreements on a town-by-town basis. But as violence raged throughout the West Bank and Gaza, the potential for events elsewhere to reignite the battle of Beit Jala remained high...