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More difficult to analyze is the Middle East. Yet the same first rule of containment is at issue. Last week's riots in Gaza underscore a powerful concern, for they make clear that Yassir Arafat cannot control the land he governs. If the peace process advances in such a way that an autonomous Palestinian state on the Israeli border is at issue, perhaps we should remember these events and their broader implications. A weak government is an invitation to chaos and its usual parasite in the Middle East, Islamic fundamentalism...
...violence which rolled through the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has been squarely pinned on Israelis, who are portrayed as Goliaths, as if the uproarious Palestinians were righteous Davids. In particular, the new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been cited as the instigator of crisis. He is condemned for being disinterested in the "peace" process; yet he is harangued for his resolve to secure a peaceful existence for the Israeli people in their own state...
JERUSALEM: The Israeli Defense Force moved tanks, troops and helicopters into the Gaza Strip and West Bank on Thursday as clashes with Palestinian police and demonstrators continued in the bloodiest exchanges since 1993. After three days of gunfire, at least 42 Palestinians and 11 Israelis are dead, and some 400 Palestinians and 32 Israelis have been wounded. Thousands of stone-throwing Palestinain demonstrators in the Gaza Strip attacked the small Jewish settlements of Netzarim and Kfar Darom. "There's been violence in Jerusalem's old city and at checkpoints all along the West Bank," reports TIME's Jean Max from...
...occupation, plus further withdrawals in the West Bank. To Palestinian dismay, Netanyahu insisted on reopening the Hebron agreement already completed by the previous Labor government. And while Netanyahu said last week that he may eventually be prepared to start discussions on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, those negotiations had already begun under Labor. Publicly, Arafat's aides praised last week's summit, but privately they expressed reservations. Said one: "We are not satisfied, and we are not hopeful...
...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans for new Jewish settlements on the West Bank, the demolition of a Palestinian youth center in east Jerusalem and an Israeli unwillingness to fulfill the peace agreement, Arafat called the first general strike since May 1994. Throughout Palestinian areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, streets emptied as schools, stores and transportation shut down. "The strike is an act of self-flagellation," says TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Like a hunger strike, the point is to bring attention to the Palestinian complaints. Itself, it is not a major event...