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...freed. The move, in fact, brought threats from a top Islamic leader whose own house was raided. He said the crackdown would only spur further attacks on Israelis. Rabin, unmoved by the display, threatened to halt the Palestinian autonomy process entirely and even send a strike force into Gaza if Arafat can't save the hostage; whether his life will be saved is now a near unanimous focal point for Israeli fear and anger...
...chairman Yasser Arafat's Palestinian National Authority arrested at least 35 suspected Muslim extremists after Israel threatened to halt talks over expanding Palestinian self-rule to the entire Gaza strip. Arafat's move came a day after gunmen from the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, killed an Israeli and wounded six others in drive-by shootings in Gaza. The extremists said Arafat's police were already confiscating weapons from Hamas members, a policy shift that TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says is unprecedented and risky. While it may show the Israelis that Arafat is serious about peace, Beyer says...
...television sets as Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warmly pledged an end to a state of war and the beginning of an era of cooperation. Following so quickly on the return of Yasser Arafat and officials of his Palestine Liberation Organization to the Gaza Strip and Jericho, last week's handshake confirmed that the mood in the region is shifting strongly toward peace...
Their talk was about peace and, just as important, about prosperity. Diplomats are discovering that in ending the estrangement between Arabs and Israelis, money must talk as much as they do. As if to underscore that point, hundreds of Palestinians rioted on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel last week in a skirmish between Israeli soldiers and P.L.O. policemen that left two Palestinians dead. The reason for the disturbance: the Palestinians, 20,000 of whom travel to Israel daily for work, were fed up with long lines at the checkpoint into Israel and with the Israeli quotas that...
These are big and expensive dreams. In the short run the most urgent need is to boost the economy of the stricken Palestinian self-rule zones, where local officials warn of a "revolution of the hungry." Employment in the Gaza Strip is scarce except for jobs in Israel. The $2.5 billion in aid over five years pledged by the international community to build Palestinian houses and schools and train workers for better jobs will help, but only a trickle of funds is flowing in. Last week P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat asked U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher to open...