Word: jerusalem
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...afterward. "Had it been the 40 schoolchildren, it would have been the end of the peace process as we know it." A Hamas splinter group, Islamic Jihad, made another go at that goal late last week, sending two bombers into a crowded market in Jewish West Jerusalem. The attack went awry when they lost control of their car and it exploded, killing the two and injuring at least 21 bystanders...
...recent days might have overtaxed his ballast. In the course of two weeks, Arafat has seen the clinching of a new peace accord with Israel, the worst anti-Palestinian Authority riots ever in the West Bank, the attempted slaughter of 40 Israeli schoolchildren, another botched bombing of a Jerusalem market and the issuing of unprecedented threats against his life. All this for the sake of a peace agreement that most Palestinians think the Israelis will not honor anyway. Arafat has always led a dangerous life. But if he thought retiring as a revolutionary exile and returning home...
...think Hamas will target Arafat, but he does expect assassinations of lesser officials. Says a P.A. Cabinet member: "If you want to get rid of Arafat or any other P.A. official, all you need is a crazy guy like those who blow themselves up in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and unfortunately there are a lot of them around...
...Israel's cabinet to endorse the Wye peace accord. After days of stonewalling, Benjamin Netanyahu suddenly pushed approval of the Wye agreement through his cabinet late Wednesday, following a Tuesday night phone call from President Clinton. "It certainly helped that the Americans are poised to bomb Iraq," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The Israelis couldn't afford to be the reason that Washington was being given a hard time from Arab countries over action against Saddam...
Just last spring, a further annexation of settlements and Arab villages of the West Bank into the territory of Jerusalem buttressed this effort to Judaicize Jerusalem. This plan secured that East Jerusalem would never leave Israeli hands. Last week, Foreign Minister Arial Sharon was reported in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot to advocate a 20-year incubation before the final status agreements. This must be an ominous sign to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza who watch settlements and the infrastructure that supports them encroach upon and divide the rolling hills they have known all of their lives...