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...commandment. When she heard Manhattan Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach say it was a Jew's duty to reclaim all the land of biblical Israel, she believed, and she came, not just to the Holy Land but to the very heart of the struggle, to the West Bank city of Hebron. After a year in the confines of the Avraham Avinu quarter, one of six minuscule fortified enclaves inhabited by some 400 Jews amid the city's 100,000 Palestinians, she has no doubts and no regrets. It's simple, she says, as she nuzzles her two-year...
Mubarak: I had long talks with him. He promised me that he was going to implement what was signed before. Nothing happened. I can't understand it. Is this because of differences in his Cabinet? I told him, "Please start implementing the agreements. Start with [Israeli army deployment from] Hebron. Ease the closure [of Israel to Palestinian workers]. This is the only way to make people trust the new Israeli government." Mind you, the Syrians are telling me, "How can you trust this man? Look at what he is doing with the Palestinians...
Mubarak: I heard that he wants to change the whole agreement on Hebron. But Arafat will be unable to do this. It will mean the failure of Arafat among his people. If Arafat disappears, the Palestinians will not sit with folded arms. Violence may start. Not only against the Israelis but against those who support the Israelis...
...principals rose from lunch in the White House, Netanyahu began talking quietly with Arafat. Then he put his arm around Arafat and drew him away from the others into a corner where they could speak privately. American negotiator Dennis Ross had proposed earlier that the talks on Hebron begin at Erez, a checkpoint between Israel and the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. But when he and Arafat rejoined the group, Netanyahu said they had agreed the negotiations should start Sunday, after the Muslim and Jewish sabbaths on Friday and Saturday. In spite of the willingness to go ahead...
...White House and the State Department are wrestling with whether Netanyahu is "all talk and no action" when he says he is committed to the search for a peaceful solution. "Even if you get a deal on Hebron," says Richard Haass, who headed Middle Eastern affairs at the National Security Council during the Bush Administration, "it's still hard to be optimistic about the course of the next months and years. It's really up to Israelis to decide what sort of lives they want to lead...