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Next week Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President ever to visit the Gaza Strip. This means he has an unprecedented opportunity to acquire unusual holiday gifts. The local equivalent of Martha's Vineyard's Black Dog store is reputedly the Tariq Brothers' shop on Al-Wehda Street in Gaza City. Stocking stuffers offered there and nearby...
...such pessimism? In the past month Israel has released 250 Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Authority has opened its airport in Gaza, and Israeli troops have begun to withdraw from selected areas of the West Bank. While it is true that Prime Minister Netanyahu has threatened a halt to additional withdrawals, he has done so in response to Chairman Arafat's promise to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state in May 1999 (before the conclusion of the delicate final status peace talks), in direct violation of the Wye Agreement...
...from a foreign-policy walk in the park away from his Washington troubles, Clinton's visit to Gaza may be the trickiest trip of his presidency. "His whole investment here is at risk of going down the tubes," says Beyer. "The visit will be hailed as a great success as long as nothing catastrophic happens." Clinton certainly won't want to be reminded that he's not the first U.S. president under threat of impeachment to make a Mideast peace pilgrimage. Richard Nixon visited Cairo in early 1974, and -- enough said...
...attention to the Israeli behind the curtain. Yasser Arafat opened the new Gaza International Airport Tuesday in a fanfare of publicity, declaring it an important milestone on the road to Palestinian statehood. "But once the emotion has died down and Palestinians realize the airport is another Israeli checkpoint, the response will be different," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad...
Later that week, a member of Hamas, the largest Palestinian Islamic group, nearly blew up a bus filled with the school-bound children of Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip. (An Israeli army jeep escorting the children cut him off, absorbing the blow of his 170-lb. car bomb. The bomber and one soldier died.) "[Arafat] was really panicking about it," said an official who saw him afterward. "Had it been the 40 schoolchildren, it would have been the end of the peace process as we know it." A Hamas splinter group, Islamic Jihad, made another go at that goal...