Word: hebron
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...debate how their resentment might have led one Jew to murder another. For a nation that regards its citizens as kin, Rabin's murder evokes the horror of patricide. But while Amir may have been swept up in the rhetoric of the militants, his kind lives not in Hebron but in infamy...
...intricately worded 400-page document that outlines the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from territory seized in the 1967 Six-Day War and transfers governing authority to Palestinians for most of their population in the West Bank. A last-minute dispute over the timing of Israeli troops' withdrawal from Hebron was resolved when Rabin and Arafat stepped in to President Clinton's private dining room to work things out; their changes were added to the agreement document...
...Israeli settler trying to take down a Palestinian flag in an Arab elementary school set off a violent clash today between Palestinians and Israelis in Hebron. "This is a scary and mean situation right now," reports Sam Allis from Jerusalem. "The Israeli government's hands are virtually tied. They can't get the settlers out of Hebron voluntarily, and it would be political suicide to force them out. Hebron is holding up the peace talks." Today's violence came on the second anniversary of the Israeli-PLO accord, signed in Oslo in 1993. Hebron is the main obstacle between Israel...
...workers also deprives the Palestinians of $1 million in daily earnings. If international aid would stimulate the Palestinian economy enough to replace jobs lost in Israel, the principle of separation would become attractive to the Palestinians. But only if it is symmetrical. Says Mohamed Natshe, a junk dealer in Hebron: ``Rabin doesn't want to see my face, but I don't want to see his either, nor the faces of the settlers and soldiers.'' Under the 1993 agreement, Israeli settlements are to remain in place during the interim phase, with their ultimate fate determined by the final-status accord...
...wonder when the agonized conscience which overtook Israel after the massacre in Hebron will be expressed among the Palestinians" said Peretz yesterday...