Word: jericho
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...week progressed, and the recognition talks bore no immediate fruit. Both sides share an urgent desire to reach such an agreement, yet translating that into precise language is proving frustratingly difficult. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres insisted that the deal to give self-rule to the Gaza Strip and Jericho would be implemented even without the mutual-recognition pact, but formal, reciprocal acknowledgment of legitimacy is crucial to finding a broad, permanent settlement...
...firmly intended to lead to some final political settlement. The document has been painstakingly drafted, covering -- at least in outline -- the most sensitive concerns of both sides. It provides, first of all, for ! Israeli withdrawal from the 140-sq.-mi. Gaza Strip, with its 770,000 Palestinians, and from Jericho, an ancient, somnolent Jordan Valley town of about 20,000, a thin sliver of the 1 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank...
...from the Jordan, the sleepy oasis-green town of Jericho is a contrast to Gaza, where the intifadeh uprising has virtually destroyed the economy. The intifadeh has had far less impact in Jericho, where the residents, by comparison with the utter poverty in Gaza, are almost prosperous. Townspeople have heard that Arafat will visit soon, and like most of them, 73-year-old Ahmed Ali Missad says he will be in the street to cheer him. If he comes, says Missad, "it will mean peace. We all want peace." But even here, Palestinians can't suppress the fear that self...
...anxiety about politics and security, rejectionists and violence, the success of the Gaza-Jericho experiment will turn on economics. Poverty and hopelessness account for much of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab world as well as the bloodshed by those Palestinians who have nothing to lose. The deal will collapse unless the dreary lot of the Palestinians is rapidly improved. Skeptical Palestinians are willing to give peace a chance as long as their expectations for a better life are satisfied. "In Israel they have everything," says Ibrahim Abu Faid, a resident of Gaza's Shati Camp. "We will...
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres suggested that Israel and the Palestinians were near agreement on a plan for limited Palestinian autonomy in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. The arrangement would include the withdrawal of Israeli troops from population centers in those two places. Peres says he is hoping for "a breakthrough" during the round of peace talks that begins this week...