Word: intifadas
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...Yasser Arafat, who has found his diplomatic leverage expanded by the 10-week intifada - and, arguably, by Barak's reliance on a peace agreement to win reelection - has even higher expectations for the Mitchell inquiry. The Palestinian leader is hoping it will endorse his call for an international peacekeeping or monitoring force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. That's an idea to which Israel remains hostile, and for obvious reasons: Arafat wants peacekeepers deployed around Palestinian populations to make it more difficult for Israel to annex land if a Palestinian state is unilaterally declared. Of course...
...Christian tourists had been flocking to the town before the Palestinian authorities made their decision. Bethlehem, which lies seven or eight miles south of central Jerusalem, has been a flash point of confrontation between Palestinian youths and Israeli troops during the current intifada, and all access points to the town have been tightly guarded by Israeli troops. The Bethlehem suburb of Beit Jalla has suffered heavy Israeli shelling after being used as cover by Palestinian snipers firing on the adjacent Israeli neighborhood of Gilo. Municipal authorities cited the death of seven Palestinian youths from the town over the past...
...think also that the intifada has conveyed a message to Israelis, both left- and right-wing, that they cannot trust the Palestinians. Will Arafat be able to make the Israelis trust him in six months? It would take centuries, not months, to win back their trust. In fact, if Arafat is seen to be supporting Barak, that would be a problem for Barak himself...
...Belgrade. And while their artillery and air forces were exchanging fire over Kashmir last year, Indians and Pakistanis were still munching on Macs - "lamburgers" in the Indian case, since the chain has eschewed beef there out of respect for Hindu dietary customs. And only weeks before the latest intifada began, the Palestinian Authority was trying to interest Mickey D's in setting up shop in a series of malls planned for such latter-day hotspots as Kalkilya, Tulkarm, Bethlehem and Ramallah...
...restrain Palestinians for fear of stampeding Israeli voters to the right, or do they press on regardless of whether the man they'll ultimately face across the negotiating table is Netanyahu or Barak. But the election also presents Arafat with an opportunity: After all, the Palestinian leader knows the intifada alone will not force Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza, and a return to negotiations is inevitable - and Barak now needs a peace deal more than ever...