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...territories, who think its terms tilt heavily in Israel's favor. "We got almost everything we wanted," says Uri Dromi, head of Israel's government press office. "Why should I apologize for our success?" That is just what troubles Dr. Eyad Sarraj, who runs a mental- health clinic in Gaza. "Under this agreement, we will have an occupation in everything but name," he says. "Instead of being next door to me, the Israeli army will be a few meters farther away. Gaza will continue to be a prison, with Israel controlling all our exit points...
Under the agreement, Israeli soldiers will be stationed in the three areas in the Gaza Strip where 5,000 Jewish settlers live. The army will also control three roads linking these communities to Israel. Many Palestinians see the ! military's future presence in the area as a violation of the peace accord signed by Israel and the P.L.O. last September, which called for a "withdrawal" of Israeli military forces from the Gaza Strip, rather than the redeployment now planned...
...Egypt and Jordan. The Palestinians will have their own wing in the border terminal, through which Palestinians will pass, but these travelers will still be subject to Israeli security checks. Israel maintains the right to refuse entry to anyone who is not a resident of the West Bank or Gaza Strip, and can restrict the return of refugees from the Arab-Israeli wars, quashing Palestinian hopes of unfettered immigration...
...Arafat's constituents are feeling let down, it is partly because the P.L.O. chairman raised their expectations too high when he made the original agreement with Israel in September. He told them then that he had achieved "sovereignty" in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, when in fact the accord provided only for limited self-rule. Now every missed deadline feeds distrust on each side about the good faith of the other and breeds violence among the disappointed citizens in the territories. While Palestinian factions fight one another in Gaza, a black market in guns is flourishing as ordinary citizens ! seek...
Rabin says it will take at least a month more to resolve the remaining details of the Gaza-Jericho pact. But negotiators on both sides are hoping that after their toughest problems are tamed in Cairo, the rest of the work will go quickly. "I accept his deadline," says P.L.O. senior negotiator Nabil Shaath, "but I hope to beat it." The pace will have to pick up, however, before the goodwill spreads beyond the negotiators to the people whose lives they are shaping...