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...articles I have read in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Crimson about the Middle East, I had only a basic idea about the history of land exchanges in the West Bank, Gaza, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. And in meetings with top level political advisors, activists and journalists in Israel, it became apparent that even they had wide discrepancies in their understandings of the accord...
...Yassin's future, the charismatic leader said last week that he intended to return to his native Gaza Strip soon. Hamas officials insisted his pardon gave him that right. Yassin has moderated his public views during his incarceration, even calling for a halt in Hamas attacks. But, says an Israeli official, "I would expect that the type of things he'd say out of jail would be substantially different...
...Mossad's botched assassination attempt on a Hamas leader in Jordan. Hamas itself is buoyant. The real loser from the incident appears to be Yasser Arafat. As the hapless Mossad hit men returned home Monday, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin ? released as part of the same deal ? was welcomed in Gaza by tens of thousands of Palestinians. Arafat now has either to seek coexistence with Hamas ? and earn the ire of Israel and the U.S.? or to confront an adversary growing in power and influence. ?Arafat?s room for maneuver is greatly limited,? says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. ?Sheikh Yassin...
...leaders of Hamas, which had quickly taken responsibility for the blast. But Netanyahu, while touring a Jerusalem hospital filled with the wounded, vowed to back away from peace talks if Arafat doesn't crack down on the radical Islamists. Israelis again locked down the West Bank and Gaza Strip, keeping 100,000 Palestinians who commute to Israel out of work, and rounded up suspected Islamist militants...
...aftermath of the July 30 Jerusalem bombing that took the lives of 15 victims and provoked Israel's punitive response, relations slid down to the level of name calling. Arafat made matters worse when he publicly embraced a Hamas leader at a so-called unity conference in Gaza. Netanyahu warned that the Palestinian chief may have given the "kiss of death" to the peace process...