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...militant Islamic group Hamas issued new threats against Israeli targets today as reconciliation talks collapsed with the Palestinian self-rule government headed by Yasser Arafat. The talks, whose importance an Arafat spokesman minimized today, began after PLO police opened fire on Hamas activists in Gaza Nov. 18, killing 15 people. The talks' failure was another setback in Arafat's efforts to gain a grip on Palestinians who oppose the Israeli peace accord. The threats -- made during a Gaza City rally today where 10,000 Hamas supporters gathered to commemorate the group's 1987 founding -- put security forces throughout Israel...
...group of 22 countries and three international aid organizations agreed to accelerate delivery of funds to Yasser Arafat and his Gaza-based Palestinian Authority. Donors agreed to provide $125 million through next March to cover Arafat's budget deficit, plus $23 million to create jobs. Meanwhile, Israel transferred the responsibilities for taxation and health services in the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority in preparation for wider self-rule there...
While some Israeli commentators see the conflict in the Gaza Strip as the beginning of the end for Hamas and other fundamentalist radicals, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government is alarmed by the developments. "Last Friday opened Israeli minds to how fragile the whole peace process is," said Uri Dromi, director of the Government Press Office. "And Rabin is also invested in this. What can he tell the Israeli people? That he was wrong to make peace with Arafat...
...school of thought in the government argues that Palestinian self-rule should be limited to the Gaza Strip and Jericho and not expanded, as promised, to the rest of the West Bank -- at least until Arafat proves he can effectively govern Gaza. The alternate view holds that Israel must help Arafat by granting him a political victory, namely extending autonomy to the West Bank as soon as possible. Dromi believes the second school will...
...meantime, the situation in Gaza remains perilous. Warns Mansour Shawa: "If the path is not corrected, we are heading for calamity. Any future confrontation -- any -- will lead to widespread violence." Whatever the remedy, it had better come quickly, lest the slogans on Gaza's walls turn out to be prophetic...