Word: jericho
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...anxieties is a strong commitment to Israeli security in any further arrangements made in the peace process. Toward this end, Rabin and Peres have prudently held out over a number of outstanding issues. Most important among these is the issue of who will control the borders of Gaza and Jericho with other Arab states. Israel has insisted, justly, that Israeli authorities should have veto power over entry of some foreigners into the West Bank and Gaza...
Israelis yearn for an end to military confrontation and the Intifada. With the Gaza-Jericho agreement, Israel has taken a calculated risk and given the Palestinians a chance. Now, it is the Palestinians' turn to prove their commitment to peace...
Assad's performance in Geneva may help speed talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization on bringing Palestinian rule to Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Peres and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat were due to meet again at the end of last week in Norway. And if Syria is back on track, Jordan cannot be far behind. Clinton, Assad and Rabin do agree on one point: they would like 1994 to be the year for a breakthrough on peace in the whole Middle East...
Peres, an instrumental figure in last September's Israel-PLO accord and a negotiator in the talks about Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho, will speak on "An Arab-Israeli Peace: A Promise for the Future...
...week after a dispute over the outcome of their previous talks. The two sides will meet again in Egypt this week to try to resolve key issues that have long frustrated them: control of border passages to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank near the town of Jericho and the size of the Palestinian enclave in Jericho...