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...most adventurous project, however, is the joining of South Africa's famous 20,000-sq-km Kruger Park with Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park and a huge big-game reserve in Mozambique. Organizers say the park, known as the gkg (Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou), could become one of the planet's top ecotourist destinations. The World Bank, usaid and the German Development Bank are helping pay for research, infrastructure and the development of villages on or near the transnational game corridors where the animals will roam...
...Palestinians to take steps to end attacks from their territory, while Israel would lift its blockade of the Palestinian territories, withdraw its troops to the positions in which they'd been deployed last September before the current uprising, and freeze the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. If the resultant cease-fire brokered among the security teams on both sides could be sustained for four weeks, political negotiations would resume. The Israeli government had initially rejected the proposal out of hand, but began to engage with it when Washington showed interest...
...plenty of reason for skepticism, even if not all of its reservations would be acceptable to the United States - Israel rejects a blanket freeze on settlement expansion, for example, but the U.S. has never been sympathetic to Israel's efforts to build settlements on the West Bank and Gaza. But Peres is on firmer ground when questioning what concrete and verifiable steps Arafat would be required to make to reduce violence. Arafat's political authority in the West Bank and Gaza is clearly not what it was even a year ago, when no one dared publicly question his orders - recently...
...ongoing intifada poses a domestic political crisis, nor for Washington, whose overriding concern is regional stability. And that may be what brought Peres to Washington this week. But while his discussions in Washington were over cease-fire terms - on the ground in Israel and in the West Bank and Gaza - nobody, right now, is talking seriously about peace...
...assault on the Gaza strip, carried out by land, sea and air forces, represented a drastic escalation of the ongoing unrest in the region. Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered Gaza and appeared to start building camps and fortifications in preparation for a prolonged occupation. Within a few hours of Secretary Powell’s stinging rebuke, however, Israeli forces were heading back across the border...