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...GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: That was quite an opener, but what will he do for an encore? On the first day of a two-day conference here, Yasser Arafat hugged and kissed Islamic militants ? including Hamas, the organization blamed for the recent double-suicide bombing ? and warned Israel a new revolt could be on the horizon...
JERUSALEM: Three Palestinian trucks carrying eggplants and tomatoes left the Gaza Strip today. It may not seem like news, but this is the first step in cooling down the crisis in the Middle East. Since the suicide bombing thirteen days ago, Israel kept the Gaza border closed as part of an array of sanctions against the Palestinians. Now, those sanctions are being rolled back -- and the vegetable trucks are rolling again...
...TIME's Jamil Hamad reports the Israeli crackdown is making the lives of those in the West Bank and Gaza hellish. "It's clear that a peaceful solution is becoming less and less popular every day because of such policies," says Hamad...
...Arafat isn't alone. According to TIME's Jamil Hamad, the threatened Israeli crackdown is making the lives of those in the West Bank and Gaza a living hell. "It's clear that a peaceful solution is becoming less and less popular every day because of such policies," says Hamad. Nonetheless, the Isreali government gave every indication today that it was still up for a game of hardball -- by keeping its measures in place indefinitely...
Abington's statement reflects more than an educated hunch; it is the result of a semiannual CIA survey of settlement occupancy in the West Bank and Gaza. The agency's latest findings reveal a vacancy rate of 25% in the West Bank and twice that in the Gaza Strip. Those conclusions reflect a familiar reality; for years the Israelis have been engaged in settlement building in the occupied territories not because they need new housing but because they want to hold onto the land. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the survey as "false by an order of magnitude...