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JEWS AND ARABS ARE HAVING SUCH A TOUGH TIME living together that the Israeli government has decided to keep them apart as much as possible. Having already closed off the Gaza Strip in response to a worsening spiral of attacks and counterattacks, authorities have forbidden Palestinians in the West Bank to enter Israel. The twin moves kept more than 100,000 Palestinians from reaching their jobs in Israel, at an estimated cost in lost earnings of $2.6 million daily...
Adding to the sense of crisis was a mysterious shooting in the Gaza Strip that may have been an assassination attempt on Dr. Haidar Abdel-Shafi, the chief Palestinian negotiator in the Middle East peace talks. As a large group of Gazans left a private home, shots killed a Palestinian teacher standing six feet from Abdel-Shafi. He blamed panicky Israeli soldiers, but the military denied responsibility, and activists from the Red Eagles, a Palestinian group that opposes the peace talks, claimed credit...
Amid the diplomatic turmoil, the U.S. postponed peace talks scheduled to resume this week. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher prepared for a Middle East tour in which he hopes to persuade Arab leaders to return to the negotiating table. Violence in Israeli-occupied Gaza lent new urgency to Christopher's peace mission: Friday was the bloodiest day in nearly two months, with five Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers...
Hamas is actually a homegrown movement, born in the Gaza Strip a few years ago as an answer to Israel's occupation and the perceived ineptitude of the , Palestine Liberation Organization. Israel treated the movement with benign neglect until it turned violent in 1991. Then the government began deporting its leaders, and that sent others running for the border...
...government press office in Jerusalem released a diagram of how officials depicted the structure of Hamas: at the top is the "U.S. leadership," from which its tentacles extend into the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well as several Arab states and Iran. Two Israeli newspapers reproduced the chart, and all the dailies shouted the news of the arrests from their front page...