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...people. Why are they desperate? Is the destruction of all Palestinians the only good solution, as some in Israel see it? Didn't the fact that Israel could not avoid all terrorist attacks persuade it to agree on some peace process rather than continue a spiral of violence? Benjamin Netanyahu has harvested what he sowed. Please save us from this kind of simplistic and shortsighted commentary. HUBERT CHRISTIAEN Heverlee, Belgium...
...denial on Palestinian television. A cultural affairs show, aired last week, featured a claim by the host that that the Jews "exaggerate what the Nazis did to them," and profit from it by inflating the number of victims. David Bar-Illan, a top adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, replied: "It is regrettable that an official outlet of the Palestinian Authority has stooped to Holocaust denial, coupled with an allusion to Jewish venality and greed." The chairman of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corp. claimed the comments were not "against Jews or against anybody." Now Israelis are wondering if this attitude...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Four days of Middle East shuttling by special envoy Dennis Ross has left Yasser Arafat emptyhanded - and spitting mad. All Ross was able to extract from Netanyahu was today's lifting of another travel ban. Says TIME's State Department correspondent Dean Fischer: "It's not much of a concession...
Fischer understands the Palestinian leader's frustration. "Netanyahu got through Ross's visit with all his cards intact. He has no reason to relent." And all Arafat got was this lousy T-shirt...
...Israel has no apparent plans to let up on the most crippling economic sanction: the witholding of more than half of the Palestinian Authority's monthly income. "Netanyahu still wants to see a crackdown from Arafat on Hamas and the Islamic military groups," says Lisa Beyer, TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief. "What can he hold back in return? Everything, until the Palestinians do as they are told...