Word: jericho
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...hard to find anyone who believes strongly that the limited self-rule now in effect in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho will soon be expanded to the include entire West Bank. Many people question whether that ought to happen at all. Israelis are worried about creating new safe havens for bombers. As Uri Dromi, the director of Israel's Government Press Office, says, "People see what's happening in Gaza, and they say, 'You mean to tell me you want to bring this closer to our homes...
...calculators are to calculus students what microwave ovens are to popcorn lovers; once the device is used, there is no going back. "If you don't use this technology, then you're really teaching as if you were in the 1940s," says Judith Broadwin, an A.P. math teacher at Jericho High School in New York. "The few people who object to this do so because they're afraid...
...years after the famous handshake at the White House, four million Palestinians live in the Diaspora, and another two million live under siege in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, or under Israeli military occupation in the rest of the West Bank. Israeli settlements continue to be built on the West Bank, especially around Jerusalem, creating a de facto situation on the ground before any final negotiations take place. Earlier this week, a Palestinian prisoner died at the hands of Israeli interrogators...
Traveling through the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher spoke of a "new burst of energy'' in the flagging peace process. Israel and the Palestinians established a July 1 deadline for reaching agreement on extending Palestinian self-rule, now limited to the Gaza Strip and Jericho, to the rest of the West Bank. There were strong hints that Israel and Syria would resume talks in Washington. And with Christopher at his side, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak slightly softened Cairo's refusal to vote for an extension of the 25-year-old Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty unless Israel joins...
Worse than the blood-soaked statistics is the growing fear on both sides that nothing will improve. Palestinians and their Arab allies are increasingly persuaded that Israel has no intention of expanding self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho to the rest of the West Bank. Planned Palestinian elections are six months overdue, and Israel has yet to move any of its occupying troops out of the territory. After Beit Lid, Arafat also blamed Palestinian militants for the delays. Said he: ``Every time we get nearer to retrieving in our hands the West Bank and extending the national authority...