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...Beit Jala misadventure highlights some of the obstacles to a "rolling cease-fire" between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel withdrew from the Bethlehem village before dawn on Thursday, following a local truce brokered by European diplomats. They had agreed to leave if Palestinian gunmen stopped firing on their positions and on the adjacent Israeli neighborhood of Gilo, although fierce fire fights into the night on Wednesday had placed the deal in jeopardy. But although it offered a face-saving exit from an operation that appeared to cause Israel more problems than it solved, and also revived the prospects for new talks...
...cease-fire throughout the West Bank and Gaza, the two sides would work towards such a cease-fire by establishing such agreements on a town-by-town basis. But as violence raged throughout the West Bank and Gaza, the potential for events elsewhere to reignite the battle of Beit Jala remained high...
...know. It seems that the presence of the Israeli soldiers in Beit Jala is actually inciting them to continue firing. I don't know how long will continue. It's more or less like a war here. The residents of Beit Jala had in the past appealed to Yasser Arafat, as well as to embassies and church leaders, to stop Palestinians firing from Beit Jala, so as to avoid the Israeli reaction. But now most of their anger is directed at the Israelis...
...Israeli army sustain the permanent occupation of Beit Jala that they have threatened...
...doubt that they're planning to stay permanently in Beit Jala, but they're trying to get assurances that Palestinians won't shoot again at Gilo. But the question now is who is in a position to give such guarantees? When the Israelis come into their areas, the Palestinian Authority security people are joining the gunmen in defending the sovereignty of their areas...