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...main test is the implementation, especially in Gaza. Jericho is symbolic. In Gaza there are three-quarters of a million Palestinians, poverty, economic and social problems. The real problem is to what extent the P.L.O. will have the means to take over. They have never been responsible for running a large community -- to maintain law and order, to prevent terror, to run an economy, to build houses, to run schools, to develop industries. The whole future depends on how it works in Gaza-Jericho...
...believe there is a good chance they will succeed. But without a tremendous amount of money from the outside, I don't see great hope that they will manage even in Gaza...
...face very difficult problems. We start from zero. The infrastructure of Gaza has been destroyed. We need help, not only from our brothers and friends but also from those who want real peace in this area. Peace is a Palestinian need, but it is also an Israeli, an American, a Russian and an Arab need. Every power in the world has a strategic interest in this area because it has so much...
...There are celebrations everywhere. There is criticism from some circles, but for the first time in this century the majority believe there will be a national Palestinian authority on a free land in Gaza and Jericho from which Israel will withdraw. Many people are worried, but this is normal...
...family during the Jewish New Year, but he had no illusions about the new way of life awaiting Israelis and Palestinians. Both sides have to fill in the blanks of their agreement in principle and figure out precisely how to transfer most government functions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from the occupier to the occupied. "The game remains a puzzle of fitting hundreds of small details together," he said. "You don't have enough pages in your magazine to list them...