Word: jerichos
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...years later, and the Palestinians may finally have proved Abba Eban wrong. The stunning agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. on the so-called Gaza-Jericho First plan is in spirit and even in some detail and language a resurrection of the Camp David plan that they once so bitterly scorned...
...Israeli Defense Forces see the militant group as a double security threat once the territories are granted autonomy. They fear Hamas will go after Israeli settlers and the new Palestinian authorities in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, provoking reprisals that could easily turn into a bloodbath. They are also worried about how much easier it will be to stage large-scale terrorist operations into Israel. The Israelis will still command the bridge connecting Jordan and Jericho, but they will no longer control Gaza port. Today the Palestinians have no missiles that can reach Israel from the occupied territories...
...agreed to recognize officially the P.L.O. if the organization repeals parts of its covenant calling for Israel's destruction. The plan provides for limited self- government for the Palestinians in the occupied territories, and will be implemented first in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Jericho...
...paper, what a handful of bargainers have written looks rather small, a narrow agreement on limited self-rule for the 770,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and 1 million more in the West Bank, starting in the oasis of Jericho. Yet the psychological breakthrough in recognizing each other's humanity is huge, the step neither Israelis nor Palestinians would take before. Making it work will take years to realize, but only a failure of the test they have set themselves can undo what has been done. The nagging question is whether these two can live with a victory...
...seen by most Israelis as a symbol of terrorism surprised his rivals by accepting a little instead of all-or-nothing: home rule in the squalid Gaza Strip, a hotbed of extremism, before any full autonomy for the West Bank outside of Jericho. The Gaza Strip had been the orphan no one wanted; certainly not Israelis, whose policing of the turbulent slums has become a shame and burden to them. So many protesters have been killed, wounded and thrown into jail that Jews had come to see the suppression as a moral cancer they had to excise. To save himself...