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After 27 years of fighting Israeli control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the P.L.O. at last finds the occupiers ready, even eager, to begin a retreat. Yet, in testimony to how unprepared it is to rule, the organization has informed the Israelis that it needs more time to get ready, so chaos does not take over before the P.L.O...
Under the agreement, the transfer of power in the Gaza Strip and Jericho enclaves will take 21 days. But the changeover may take even longer. "There is no real deadline," says a high-ranking Israeli negotiator. "We shall stay as long as is necessary." The army preferred to complete its redeployment within a few days, fearing a slow drawdown of troops might expose the departing soldiers to danger if the P.L.O. failed to maintain order. Such concerns were magnified by the P.L.O.'s imperfect management. A day after the Cairo ceremony, the first 1,500 of 9,000 Palestinian police...
...answer will help determine how rapidly the PL.O. gets hands on additional territory and powers. Now that the Gaza-Jericho experiment has begun, Israel and the P.L.O. are supposed to start negotiating self-rule for the rest of the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem. Originally those talks were scheduled to take seven months. But since the relatively easy Gaza- Jericho pact took that long, the second phase will almost surely stretch out longer...
...reach an agreement by the end of the year. With that in mind, American and Israeli officials began discussing what security assistance Washington might provide its ally to compensate for loss of the strategic Heights. That was a good sign that a resolution on the Golan, as with the Gaza Strip and West Bank, was moving from the hypothetical to the real...
Palestinians finally get self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho...