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...street clashes of the three-month-long Aqsa intifadeh are slowing for now, as Palestinian negotiators sweat through peace talks with Israeli and U.S. officials. But on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a dirty counterpart to the intifadeh is gathering pace, marked by deceit, ambush and death. In the past two months, Israeli special units have assassinated at least 13 Palestinians like Abu Sway who they believe were involved in attacks against Israel. And Palestinian traitor hunters are also taking a toll. Men like Shahine, accused of collaboration in those attacks, also face death, either...
...precise as I can, so I'll read this slowly," he said. As the envoys scribbled on pads, Clinton, sounding like a settlement attorney, calmly laid out American "ideas" for finally closing a peace deal. Arafat would get a Palestinian state, with Israel ceding all of the Gaza Strip and 95% of the West Bank (in exchange for the 5% of the West Bank Israel keeps for its settlements there, the Palestinians would get an extra slice of territory in Israel's Negev). Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would have to give up his demand that millions of Palestinian exiles have...
...chair out from under Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat had on Tuesday accepted "with reservations" President Clinton's negotiating framework, but the Cairo decision nixed a key component of the plan. Although it was never made public, the U.S. proposal was said to involve Israel withdrawing from all of Gaza and 95 percent of the West Bank, and recognizing Palestinian sovereignty in parts of East Jerusalem, including the Islamic holy sites atop the Temple Mount, in exchange for the Palestinians dropping their demand that some 4 million refugees be given the right to return to Israel...
...Palestinian leader now heads for Cairo where he'll huddle with Arab heads of state, in a meeting observers expect will underline his refusal to compromise on Jerusalem and the refugees. After all, three months of bloodletting in the West Bank and Gaza have left the moderate Arab regimes on which Washington traditionally relies to cajole Arafat into concessions facing mounting pressure from their own people to take a tougher stance. Nobody in the region is particularly bullish about the prospects of a peace deal concluded with a lame-duck U.S. president and an Israeli prime minister who, according...
...Arafat, too, may have become a prisoner of his own support base. The purpose of his Washington visit was to "clarify" President Clinton's framework proposals for a final peace agreement - reportedly that Israel agree to withdraw from all of Gaza and 95 percent of the West Bank, including most of East Jerusalem and the Islamic holy sites, and the Palestinians to drop claims for the right of return to Israel of some 4 million Palestinian refugees forbidden by Israeli law from returning to homes they or their ancestors fled in 1948 during Israel's war of independence. Under mounting...