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...Palestinian leader sat in Gaza brooding on his next move. The U.S. phoned with an assortment of "bridging" proposals--complicated custodial arrangements dividing holy-site sovereignty with the U.N., with Islamic representatives, even with God. According to a Palestinian negotiator, Arafat angrily told Clinton, "If you want to give sovereignty over al-Aqsa to God, then would you accept that the White House be put under God's sovereignty too?" Palestinians resented summitry that they found humiliating, as if the U.S. were ordering them to comply--and anger bubbled up in the streets. Besieged by political troubles, Barak warned that...
...traffic light, I am honking at the person in front of me, who is honking at the person in front of him. A friend calls from Gaza. For a moment we are pleasant and polite. Then begins the argument. We are friends more than we are enemies. Friendship in siege...
...government hospital was crowded with people. The administration of the hospital announced the death of Ismail Shamlakh. He was from the Gaza Strip. He came with his brother to work in the West Bank a few months ago. He was unable to see his pregnant wife, whom he left in Gaza. His son will be born as an orphan. Mourners came to pay their respects to his brother. "You should come to congratulate me," he said. "My brother wanted to be a martyr...
...This morning I was really surprised when my nine-year-old son Mohammed began a determined entry into Palestinian-Israeli politics: he asked me why the father of Mohammed al-Durra, the 12-year-old boy killed in Gaza, could not protect his son from the Israeli bullets. Why did [the Israelis] kill him? These days, everybody asks me questions. My daughter Dalal, 18, asked me about her friend Asil, from [the peace group involving Israeli and Palestinian children] Seeds of Peace, who was also killed by the Israelis. Others ask me when the Israelis will lift the closure...
...negotiations that broke down at Camp David. Even Yasser Arafat?s own supporters have shown little enthusiasm for the cease-fire he agreed to at Sharm el-Sheikh, and appear resolved - at least for now - to wage their campaign to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza on the streets rather than at the negotiating table, and that gives Arafat very little political cover to revive talks. Barak?s immediate political survival may depend on getting tough and putting the peace process in the deep freeze in order to form a coalition government with the right-wing...