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...could have been 1987, the early days of the Palestinian intifadeh, all over again. In the dusty, barricaded streets of the Gaza Strip, steel-helmeted Israeli troops played deadly hide-and-seek with bands of rock-throwing Palestinian youths. Three knife-wielding men set upon Israeli settlers, who shot two of the attackers, one fatally. Riots swept through occupied West Bank towns; soldiers fired tear gas and bullets that killed eight Arabs and wounded dozens. The hard-line Islamic movement Hamas called on Arabs to take revenge on Israelis for the massacre of at least 30 Palestinians in Hebron...
...soldiers inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs were scrubbing away the pools of blood, but it will not be so easy to clean up the political wreckage of the Hebron massacre. Talk of peace has been thrust aside by something close to urban warfare in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinians are demanding the disarmament and dismantling of the Jewish settlements before they return to the negotiations. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, no lover of the settlements, is under deeply conflicting political pressures about how to respond, and many feel he has failed to do enough. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman...
Only 48 hours before the Kiryat Arba settler pulled the trigger on his Galil assault rifle, P.L.O. negotiator Nabil Shaath and Israeli Major General Amnon Shahak had reached agreement in Cairo on specific steps to carry out the scheduled withdrawal of Israel's military forces from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. On March 11, according to their plan, Israel would release 3,000 Palestinian prisoners. On March 17, troops would begin to pull out of the Gaza Strip and Jericho. By April 12, one day before the original deadline set last September, the Israeli withdrawal...
...population hostage to the Greater Israel dreams of a few thousand zealots. His reward has been to be jeered by settlers who yell, "Rabin is a traitor!" on his rare visits to their towns. Even so, his government has been assiduous in negotiations about safeguarding the settlers in the Gaza and Jericho areas once the Israeli army withdraws...
Rabin will be under heavy pressure from Palestinians and many Israelis to do something drastic about the settlements now. Yet adding such a volatile issue to the official agenda could easily prevent the quick agreement on Gaza and Jericho that many believe is essential to keep the peace process from collapsing under the weight of last week's slaughter. The U.S. hopes it can resolve the dilemma by shunting the settlement issue over to intense informal discussions as an accompaniment, but not impediment, to the formal talks...