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...situation is getting worse. You can see that what is left from the cease-fire is the name only. Today two Palestinians were shot. I think the Hamas is accusing Israel of killing one by putting bombs in his car. The other guy was shot in the north of Gaza - the Israeli army accused him of trying to throw a hand grenade. An Israeli settler died an hour ago; he was wounded yesterday in Hebron. And another settler was killed last night in a shooting. Palestinian armed people shot them...
...timetable for reducing conflict. A week-long cease-fire would be followed by a six-week cooling-off period. The two sides would then implement measures agreed with U.S. mediators, including a freeze on Jewish settlements and the arrest of Islamic militants. But skirmishes broke out in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as Powell's visit ended, and Israel said that the truce would begin on the first violence-free day. NIGERIA Ethnic Flare-Up Ethnic violence erupted in central Nigeria after the killing of a local leader. More than 50 people were killed in an attack...
...current cease-fire were to pass both its seven-day and six-week authenticity tests, Sharon would face something of a political crisis. Besides the fact that the "confidence building" mechanisms of the current truce include a freeze on Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza, which Sharon and his supporters reject, the cease-fire is supposed to result in a revival of the political negotiations eclipsed by the ten-month intifada. But the political talks broke down at Camp David when Yasser Arafat was unable to embrace the deal offered by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak...
...very doubtful that Powell is going to achieve any fruitful result. The cease-fire is still violated every day, and some Palestinians are determined to continue firing at Israelis. There is also a growing anti-American feeling on the Palestinian streets. Every day the American flag is burned in Gaza and Ramallah and Bethlehem, and we can expect to see demonstrations against Powell...
...side of that strategic coin are the settlers, who have little to gain and much to lose from a resumption of the peace process. After all, the basic premise of the peace process has been that the Israelis will withdraw from some or all of the West Bank and Gaza (depending on which side you listen to), and that prospect is fundamentally threatening to a settler movement whose principal objective has always been a permanent Israeli presence in those territories. The deal offered by Barak at Camp David last year would have ultimately involved Israel abandoning a significant number...