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...Like his Israeli counterpart, Chairman Arafat has accepted the president?s proposed deal - with reservations. The plan, which has been kept vague and under wraps, reportedly calls for Israel to withdraw from all of Gaza and 95 percent of the West Bank, recognizes Palestinian sovereignty in parts of East Jerusalem and over the Muslim holy sites atop that city?s Temple Mount, and requires Arafat to drop claims for the right of some 4 million Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes inside Israel. Just as Prime Minister Ehud Barak accepted the proposals and then immediately added that...
...Palestinian side has insisted that their state should consist of all the Palestinian territory conquered by Israel in the war of 1967, i.e. the entire Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The Israelis hope to persuade the Palestinians to settle for less, claiming that Israel's security needs require a presence in strategic parts of the West Bank and that some of the Jewish settlements built during the years of occupation should be incorporated into Israel...
...Clinton?s Proposal: According to reports, the president is proposing that the Palestinian state comprise all of Gaza and 95 percent of the West Bank, including most of East Jerusalem and the Old City, home to such revered sites at the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (see more on this subject below...
...Jewish state. Many of those refugees currently reside in Arab states who have no interest in bearing the burden of their absorption, which creates additional pressure on Arafat not to compromise on this issue. The growing challenge to the Palestinian leader's authority in the West Bank and Gaza also militates against compromise; Arafat is well aware that signing away the refugees' claims would all but invite them to reconstitute the PLO in exile with the backing of more hostile states such as Iraq, Syria and Libya, and to further challenge Arafat?s authority in his own backyard. And after...
...Bomb blasts in Tel Aviv and Gaza on Thursday reportedly killed two and injured 16 more - as if anyone needed reminding that talk of peace means talk of compromise. And so it appears that even a U.S. president's best Solomon impression - the set of proposals that Bill Clinton left hanging in the air over the weekend - leaves those factions outside the Arafat umbrella in a very vengeful mood...