Word: hebron
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JERUSALEM: Internal political considerations prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from beginning the New Year with an agreement in place on Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron. Netanyahu was forced to postpone his New Year?s Eve summit with Arafat in order to guide his 1997 budget through the Israeli Knesset as crucial close votes coincided with the peace talks. U.S. mediator Dennis Ross said that while the two sides were very close on the Hebron agreement, ?We are not there yet.? While peace is vital to Israel, Netanyahu confronted a domestic challenge that kept...
JERUSALEM: Despite efforts of U.S. Mideast special envoy Dennis Ross, a meeting today between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat ended without a resolution on Hebron. While the three-hour talk was "extremely productive," according to Ross, the two leaders could not agree on a plan for pulling out troops from the West Bank city. Other issues of contention: joint Israeli-Palestinian patrols, the right of "hot pursuit" for Israeli police into Palestinian territory, and a timetable for promised Israeli withdrawals from more rural areas of the West Bank. Israel was scheduled to remove soldiers from Hebron in March...
...Christmas Eve turned into a joyous national celebration, Tuesday's atmosphere was more subdued, reflecting recent setbacks and delays in Arab- Israeli peace negotiations. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who failed to reach an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Israel's long-delayed pullout from nearby Hebron, was at the biblical birth place of Jesus to commemorate Christmas. Tourists traveling to Bethlehem were met with a gantlet of Israeli checkpoints, sniper towers and barbed wire fences to reach Manger Square, where they were greeted by armed Palestinian soldiers. Violence earlier this year and the slowed peace negotiations have...
Thanks to the immense difficulty of safeguarding the lives of 400 Jews like Hochbaum who refuse to leave, Hebron has emerged as the thorniest issue in the peace process so far. Despite an agreement signed by the previous Israeli government to pull back its troops and hand over most of the city to the Palestinian Authority, the redeployment has been delayed time and again for seven months while Israel seeks ways to provide sufficient "security" for the settlers. As Palestinian frustration threatens to unravel the peace, many Israelis fear the nation's fate is being held hostage by a tiny...
Marking the first anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last week, Israelis found themselves as bitterly at odds as ever over the exchange of land for peace. The intensity of their division was graphically illustrated by a shocking video clip from Hebron, played again and again on Israeli TV, showing a splash of boiling-hot tea contorting the face of Knesset member and prominent peace advocate Ya'el Dayan, daughter of war hero Moshe Dayan. According to eyewitnesses, she was approached by Yisrael Lederman, who asked, "Do you want tea?" Dayan responded, "Please." Then Lederman, later revealed...