Word: israel
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...terrorist who lobbed two grenades into a bus station in Beersheba last week, has also confessed to being responsible for two recent attacks in Hebron: a fatal stabbing and a grenade assault that wounded 14 soldiers. Apparently, he did all this while being courted by Shin Bet, Israel?s internal-security agency, to inform on the militant group Hamas. According to a Palestinian intelligence official, one of Sarsour?s cohort, in detention after the Beersheba attack, claims Sarsour told him that he had multiple meetings with Shin Bet officers; that he was given $1,000, in part...
...learn to trust each other in quid-pro-quo steps before tackling the most difficult hurdle. But, far from building mutual confidence, the last four years have been a disaster. Both sides are girding for confrontation next May, when Yasser Arafat intends to declare a Palestinian state regardless of Israel's objections. Indeed, a cynical view might hold that both sides came to Wye in order to position themselves most favorably in U.S. eyes for that confrontation. "Netanyahu's interest remains to have a peace process without an end point, to simply keep the ball rolling and rolling but never...
...There may be some comfort for optimists, however: Netanyahu may lack enthusiasm for the land-for-peace option, but he has found himself with no alternative. "In the realities of the current global situation and given the terms of modern warfare, Israel isn't in a very strong position to fight a war with its neighbors," says Dowell. "That makes it very difficult for Netanyahu defying the Americans and going it alone." The Palestinians, too, lack a strategic alternative to the negotiating process. So while peace hasn't yet prevailed, at least it has survived to fight another...
...press his luck. Afer causing an uproar earlier today with a last-second threat to bail out of peace talks unless President Clinton released convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli prime minister backed down. Instead, the issue of Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel, has been tabled until that nicest of diplomatic elements -- an unspecified later date -- occurs. The Israelis and Palestinians signed a pact Friday covering the Wye talks' main issue: Israeli withdrawal from 13.1 percent of the West Bank in exchange for greater security guarantees by the Palestinians...
...After a morning of frantic negotiation, Netanyahu on Friday appeared to have backed off from his refusal to sign a peace deal unless he could take Pollard home with him. Israel "de-linked" the issues, giving Clinton the space to release Pollard at a later point. The problem, says Thompson, is that Israeli brinkmanship on the issue has created a situation where even a future release of Pollard may carry a domestic political cost...