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...hours, the Palestinian urchins scowling through the 20-ft.-high chain-link fence at Israeli soldiers and policemen held back their rain of stones. In a gesture calculated to show progress toward granting the Palestinians limited autonomy, the Israelis planned to hand the onetime Gaza City beachfront hotel-turned-police barracks over to P.L.O. representatives. Israeli officials had billed the ceremony as the "transfer of a police station," and TV cameras came out in force to record the event. Little matter ( that most of the 50 Israeli police who until recently slept there had already moved into other, more comfortable...
...tenuous, uneven march toward peace in the Middle East stumbled again last week. Complications at the talks and unmet deadlines were punctuated with more violence, more revenge. Within an hour of the canceled Gaza ceremony, 90 miles away in northern Israel, a 25-year-old Palestinian blew up seven Israelis in a suicide attack in the town of Afula. The killer, a member of the anti-Arafat Islamic movement Hamas, detonated his car bomb alongside an Israeli bus as passengers, many of them teenagers, were boarding. Hamas promised that the attack would be the first of five in retaliation...
After almost five weeks of negotiations the Rabin government agreed to allow 160 international observers into the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to "explore a possible expansion of scope" of the self-rule negotiations beyond areas already agreed upon. These concessions prompted the Palestinians to resume talks. Rabin's reluctant acquiescence to the international observers, in the face of heated opposition in Israel, allowed the first non-Israeli deployment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The deployment crossed a symbolic barrier, as Israel has never before allowed outside forces to tamper with its internal security...
...resolve of Rabin and Peres to continue the peace process was not shaken by these most recent terrorist acts, because they realize that now, the only hope to end the violence is the current process. Negotiations to replace the current Israeli civil authorities with Palestinians in Jencho and the Gaza Strip are in their final stages, and this is the first step in the interim period of Palestinian self-rule. It is crucial to this fragile process that the parties stick to the Declaration of Principles signed last September 13, which outline an interim five year Palestinian self-rule...
...helped by statements such as the ones made last Saturday by PLO Executive Committee member Yasser Abed-Rabbo, who said that "the deal is dying and the diplomatic process is reaching total impasse" in arguing for immediate negotiations on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Notwithstanding the terrible timing of this statement, coming so soon after Afula, Abed-Rabbo, and the PLO should realize that, at this time, the chances for success in negotiations over the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are nil. What should be pressed for instead is an accelerated...