Word: jerichos
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...main test is the implementation, especially in Gaza. Jericho is symbolic. In Gaza there are three-quarters of a million Palestinians, poverty, economic and social problems. The real problem is to what extent the P.L.O. will have the means to take over. They have never been responsible for running a large community -- to maintain law and order, to prevent terror, to run an economy, to build houses, to run schools, to develop industries. The whole future depends on how it works in Gaza-Jericho...
...hard-liners like Sharon were not about to take this sitting down. The general himself noted with great pride that mass protests met the Cabinet meeting that had been called to discuss the proposed Gaza-Jericho First Plan...
...wailed, red-faced with indignation, "that Israel would deal with the PLO?" Change the intonation, subtract the angry epithets ("a gang of terrorists") that Sharon attached at the end of the phrase, and it's exactly the message we're hearing from architects and supporters of the Gaza-Jericho plan...
...mutual dignity and security and achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation." But they quickly got down to a fairly nitty- gritty discussion of procedures and timetables for Israeli military redeployment and Palestinian self-government, first in the Gaza Strip and the town of Jericho, then in the rest of the West Bank. The outcome of that test run is yet to be decided even in principle. Though both sides foresee an eventual Palestinian state in confederation with Jordan, the P.L.O. wants confederation to be freely chosen by a fully independent state; the Israelis may want...
Naturally, all sides are uneasy, even worried, about the present breakthrough. Many Palestinians fear that "Gaza and Jericho first" is nothing but a disguise for an Israeli plot to get away with "Gaza and Jericho only." Many Israelis, for their part, fear that Israel is about to give away land and forfeit strategic assets in return for nothing more than a piece of paper, a sweet document that may easily be torn to shreds the following day. Some of those apprehensions can be alleviated when people on both sides realize that the present contract contains an element of time...