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...violence which rolled through the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has been squarely pinned on Israelis, who are portrayed as Goliaths, as if the uproarious Palestinians were righteous Davids. In particular, the new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been cited as the instigator of crisis. He is condemned for being disinterested in the "peace" process; yet he is harangued for his resolve to secure a peaceful existence for the Israeli people in their own state...
...violence has obliterated all gains of the peace process, and we're basically back to square one, before former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat signed the peace accord." Israel has sealed off Gaza and the West Bank in the wake of the new clashes and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cutting short a trip to Germany to return to Israel. He reportedly will meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today. The violence follows Netanyahu's decision to open a second entrance to an archeological tunnel under Temple Mount. Al Aqsa, one of Islam's holiest mosques, sits atop...
...both men spoke to a group of Jewish leaders in New York. Kemp's pandering was so obvious that Gore, who had a partisan refutation in his pocket, instead delivered a statesmanlike talk boldly confirming the Administration's frustration with the anti-Palestinian policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who sat glumly only five feet away. The next crucial confrontation will come in the vice-presidential debate next month...
Denials notwithstanding, Netanyahu had plainly been pressured into the summit. In his first three months in office he had assiduously shunned Arafat and frozen plans to expand Palestinian self-rule, as promised in previously signed accords. Then Israeli intelligence agencies began warning that as a result, Arafat was fast losing standing among his people and that instability, perhaps violence, might follow. Finally, Israel's dovish President, Ezer Weizman, threatened publicly that if Netanyahu would not meet Arafat, he would. Netanyahu agreed to a summit...
...summit produced no breakthroughs on the next steps of interim Palestinian self-rule: an Israeli redeployment in Hebron, the last major Palestinian city still under full occupation, plus further withdrawals in the West Bank. To Palestinian dismay, Netanyahu insisted on reopening the Hebron agreement already completed by the previous Labor government. And while Netanyahu said last week that he may eventually be prepared to start discussions on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, those negotiations had already begun under Labor. Publicly, Arafat's aides praised last week's summit, but privately they expressed reservations. Said...