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JERUSALEM: Yasser Arafat angrily rejected an Israeli compromise proposal to complete its troop withdrawal from the West Bank in May 1998, a year earlier than Netanyahu has previously offered. For Arafat, it remains a year too late. U.S. envoy Dennis Ross presented the proposal to the Palestinian leader in what an Arafat aide described as an "extremely tense" six-hour meeting that lasted until early today. "The talks have hit a serious crisis," Arafat spokesman Nabil Abourdeneh told Voice of Palestine radio. "The Israelis are threatening the peace process by making such proposals." The terms for the Israeli removal from...
...reiterate our unequivocal condemnation of violence and terrorism, particularly when it is designed to destroy the fragile trust that is being established between the Israelis and Palestinians. Although the perpetrator has a history of mental illness, we agree with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's condemnation of the attack as "criminal." Furthermore, such violence is diametrically opposed to everything for which the Jewish tradition stands. In the words of Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer of the National Religious Party, "a person who thinks they have the right to kill someone in order to supposedly change history has no part...
JERUSALEM: Undaunted by Sunday's fruitless pre-dawn meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, U.S. Middle Eastern envoy Dennis Ross spent Monday prodding the two leaders to meet again to resolve the impasse over a Hebron deal. According to an agreement signed in 1995, Israel was supposed to pull troops out of Hebron, the last occupied town in the West Bank, by March 1996. But Netanyahu has delayed the troop removal, saying the 500 Jewish settlers living in Hebron still need protection from Palestinians. While Israel says it remains committed to an eventual...
JERUSALEM: Even as he is embroiled in painstaking negotiations over the Hebron agreement, Benjamin Netanyahu now may face eroding support at home. Israel radio reported Friday that two Israeli cabinet ministers of the religious Shas Party who initially supported the agreement now were considering abstaining or voting no. And Thursday night, one of Netanyahu's strongest supporters, Justice Minister Tzahi Hanegbi, said that he too would vote against a Hebron deal if Netanyahu commits to a new timetable for a troop withdrawal from West Bank rural areas. The defection of all three would prevent an agreement from taking effect...
JERUSALEM: Internal political considerations prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from beginning the New Year with an agreement in place on Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron. Netanyahu was forced to postpone his New Year?s Eve summit with Arafat in order to guide his 1997 budget through the Israeli Knesset as crucial close votes coincided with the peace talks. U.S. mediator Dennis Ross said that while the two sides were very close on the Hebron agreement, ?We are not there yet.? While peace is vital to Israel, Netanyahu confronted a domestic challenge that kept...