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...days after the Beit Lid bombing, Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shkaki spoke with Time correspondent Lara Marlowe in Damascus, giving a chilling picture of how he says the attack was planned. Though he disclaimed direct responsibility, he was obviously pleased, grinning and laughing throughout the interview. Born in the Gaza Strip, Shkaki, 44, joined the Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative Islamist group, while studying medicine in Egypt in the '70s. He returned to the Gaza Strip in 1981 and founded Islamic Jihad. Shkaki's movement set itself apart from other groups with similar names by staging suicide attacks in Israel...
TIME: How do you plan a bombing of this kind? How was the target chosen? SHKAKI: It was planned very well. The two mujahedin [the Gaza men who carried the bombs] knew each other very well. Before the attack happened, they went to the scene of the operation and studied it carefully. At the appointed time, they went from Gaza to Tel Aviv, and from Tel Aviv to the military bus station, which was well protected. Beside the military station there was a small coffee shop where soldiers go. The two men coordinated between them: the first was to enter...
Worse than the blood-soaked statistics is the growing fear on both sides that nothing will improve. Palestinians and their Arab allies are increasingly persuaded that Israel has no intention of expanding self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho to the rest of the West Bank. Planned Palestinian elections are six months overdue, and Israel has yet to move any of its occupying troops out of the territory. After Beit Lid, Arafat also blamed Palestinian militants for the delays. Said he: ``Every time we get nearer to retrieving in our hands the West Bank and extending the national authority...
Israel and the PLO today agreed to resume peace negotiations. Israel and PLO negotiators will meet again Monday in Cairo to prepare for talks between Arafat and Rabin next Thursday at a border crossing in the Gaza Strip. The compromise was reached at a summit in Cairo, hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and attended by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein. After five hours of private talks, the four leaders also denounced terrorism, and agreed to work toward a nuclear-free Middle East. TIME State Department correspondent Ann Simmons reports that...
Meeting in Gaza City with Secretary of State Warren Christopher, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat promised to act against Palestinian extremists bent on derailing the peace process. Arafat essentially acknowledged that security concerns would have to be addressed before Israel could begin withdrawing its troops from the occupied West Bank. Since the peace agreement was signed 14 months ago, 96 Israelis have died in terrorist attacks...