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Certainly, exploiting the shooting to achieve better terms was a temptation for the Palestinian team. Though the talks have focused mostly on the security of the settlers, Friedman demonstrated that the Arabs of Hebron are also at great risk. Even under Palestinian self-rule, the site of the attempted massacre as well as all the areas of Jewish settlement will remain under exclusive Israeli control. Palestinian negotiators, however, resisted the lure of reopening this issue, mindful of the fact that Netanyahu will have a difficult time as it is in getting the Hebron agreement through his right-wing Cabinet. Seven...
...near calamity last week brought the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships closer together. Netanyahu was quick to phone Arafat, to condemn Friedman's act in strong terms and wish the victims a swift recovery. Arafat avoided inflammatory language, calling the attack "a criminal attempt to torpedo the peace process." In Hebron, Israeli security forces coordinated closely with their Palestinian counterparts, who are already in position in the city but function quietly, without uniforms. When, just after the shooting, Hebron youths began to riot, Arafat's gendarmes fanned out, persuading them to desist. Said an officer: "We don't want to give...
...security forces, the Israeli Prime Minister began to grasp the price of constantly frustrating Palestinian aspirations, thereby incurring U.S. and international disapprobation. At the same time, buoyed by Palestinian and foreign support that followed the September conflagration, Arafat turned tough and instructed his negotiators to remain steely in the Hebron talks. The result was that the Palestinians won a number of concessions. Most significant, the Israelis gave up their insistence on obtaining an explicit right, in the event of a security emergency, to re-enter areas in Hebron from which they had withdrawn. Instead, they settled for a vaguer formulation...
...then it was Arafat's turn to foot-drag. He withheld instructions to close, fearing that a Hebron agreement would lift international pressure on Israel and free Netanyahu to accelerate building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank as well as slow action to fulfill Israel's commitment to expand Palestinian autonomy further. Netanyahu fanned Palestinian concern about the settlements when his government on Dec. 13 restored to those communities large public subsidies that had been revoked by the previous government...
...says a senior State Department official, "it was a very strong wake-up call." Concerned that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would peter out, or that violence would again erupt, Clinton dispatched Dennis Ross, the State Department's special Middle East coordinator, to Jerusalem with a mission to hammer away until Hebron was done...