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...Baruch Goldstein's Ibrahimi mosque massacre of 29 Palestinians, vividly illustrates the vulnerability of the Palestinian civilians in Hebron. The attack comes against a backdrop of the growing influence of Jewish fanatics and ultranationalists in the Israeli body-politic. The Jewish settlers community in the West Bank and the Gaza strip is spearheading the movement with an often sympathetic right-wing government...
...from more rural areas of the West Bank. Israel was scheduled to remove soldiers from Hebron in March, but delayed the pullout after a wave of suicide bombings in Israel. Neither Netanyahu nor Arafat spoke to the press following their meeting at the Erez Crossing between Israel and autonomous Gaza. Ross told reporters that he felt the conversation on Hebron was "energized" and said that each side negotiated in good faith. But, he cautioned, "I wouldn't expect one meeting to conclude this...
Forty percent of the Gaza Strip, and 65 percent of the West Bank, have been effectively annexed for illegal settlements, roads, and the like. Unemployment is in excess of 60 percent. So even before the violence broke out, discontent was unquestioningly widespread...
...Netanyahu began talking quietly with Arafat. Then he put his arm around Arafat and drew him away from the others into a corner where they could speak privately. American negotiator Dennis Ross had proposed earlier that the talks on Hebron begin at Erez, a checkpoint between Israel and the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. But when he and Arafat rejoined the group, Netanyahu said they had agreed the negotiations should start Sunday, after the Muslim and Jewish sabbaths on Friday and Saturday. In spite of the willingness to go ahead, no one is suggesting the talks will be quick or easy...
...fighting raged in the streets of the West Bank and Gaza late last month, Israel's opening of the now infamous Jerusalem tunnel was denounced from Turtle Bay to Timbuktu as a desecration of the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem. It took nearly a week and fully 70 dead before the truth began to trickle out: the charge...