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...P.L.O. agreed to resume negotiations that had been halted for a week after a dispute over the outcome of their previous talks. The two sides will meet again in Egypt this week to try to resolve key issues that have long frustrated them: control of border passages to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank near the town of Jericho and the size of the Palestinian enclave in Jericho...
Nearly three weeks past the scheduled date for the beginning of the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho, Israeli negotiators and representatives of the Palestinian people are clearly still at odds over the interpretation of the Declaration of Principles that was signed with such fanfare on the White House lawn last September. There has been progress, to be sure, and more significantly there remains among the participants a willingness to move from a meeting of the minds to the sealing of a deal. Just...
...Cairo meetings last week were the third round of talks since the Dec. 13 deadline passed. A fourth round is planned for this week. At issue are three main points: the boundaries around Jericho, protection for Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip and control of the borders. Negotiators on both sides say that a compromise has been reached on the size of Jericho, with Israel agreeing to 23 sq. mi. of Palestinian-controlled territory surrounding the West Bank town -- less than the 80 sq. mi. the P.L.O. wanted but double Israel's original proposal. To protect Jewish settlers, Israel...
...major unresolved issue is border control. Israel regards retention of control as critical to its security; the P.L.O. sees the presence of Palestinian policemen at border crossings as symbolic of the sovereignty they seek in Gaza and the West Bank. Under the occupation, crossing into the West Bank or Gaza Strip into Israel can be a humiliating experience for Palestinians, who are often subjected to interrogations and body searches by Israeli soldiers. The Israelis feel Palestinian control over the crossings would risk making the borders porous to exiles, terrorists and weapons...
...question of who will control the border passages to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank near the town of Jericho after the Palestinians begin self-rule in those areas continued to trouble Israeli and Palestinian negotiators. The size of the area around Jericho that the P.L.O. will administer has reportedly been resolved, but the border-control dispute was seen as more crucial since it so sharply reflects the negotiations' essential conflict: Israel's concern for security and the Palestinians' desire for the trappings of statehood...