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...administration must formulate a coherent policy for furthering Middle East peace or else be forever reacting to crises of this sort. The fighting that has been smouldering over the past months threatened to erupt into more wide spread violence when detachments of the Israeli Army occupied portions of the Gaza strip almost two weeks ago. The aggressive movements by the Israelis came in response to mortar attacks fired against Israeli settlements from the Gaza region...
Arafat does not have the sole responsibility for the situation in Israel. People forget that Israel is an occupying force in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The intifadeh, or popular uprising, is the people's way of fighting their aggressor and regaining their freedom. The whole struggle in the Middle East could be solved simply by Israel's pulling out of the territories it occupies. To condemn the Palestinians for their struggle for freedom is similar to criticizing the Americans for their struggle for freedom. SHADA RAMAHI Chicago
ARIEL SHARON Invades and withdraws from Gaza twice in 2 days. In or out? Rand McNally needs to know...
...from around Palestinian towns and cities, while the Palestinian Authority takes concrete steps to stop attacks on Israelis from areas under its control. The two sides would resume security cooperation, and Israel would lift its blockade on Palestinian areas and freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza. After four weeks, if the cease-fire holds, the two sides would resume political negotiations where they were left off with the Barak administration...
...open defiance of Arafat being displayed by his own Fatah movement, whose armed Tanzim militiamen have fought running gun battles with the Israelis throughout the current intifada. Last weekend, for example, Arafat ordered the disbanding of local "Popular Resistance Committees" set up throughout the West Bank and Gaza to coordinate the armed activities of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groupings. But Palestinian sources tell TIME that Fatah leaders such as Marwan Barghouti have rejected Arafat's position, and a Gaza "Popular Resistance Committee" on Monday issued a statement rejecting a cease-fire and vowing to fight...