Word: palestinian
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...true that Arafat has begun to score successes in everyday governance that amount if not to nation building, at least to nation tending. The Education Ministry has built 250 new classrooms in the Gaza Strip, and half the schools there have been modestly refurbished. Palestinian TV has been broadcasting in the Gaza Strip since last year, and experimental programs began in the West Bank last month. In joint ventures with private investors, the Housing Ministry has put up 4,000 apartments in the Gaza Strip. The hospital in Jericho has been renovated...
...told, though, the Gaza Strip experience has not provided much inspiration to Palestinians in the West Bank as self-rule comes their way. They are likely in any case to be disappointed by the degree of self-rule they are allowed. Among Palestinians, the widespread expectation was that after the next phase of negotiations, Israel's occupation forces would make way for Arafat's army and police by pulling out of all Palestinian cities, towns and villages in the West Bank, remaining only in positions necessary for protecting Israeli settlements. But the Israelis say they will leave just four cities...
...Americans take a very different view of the recent negotiations. "We are on the verge of a major step forward-the combination of West Bank empowerment, Israeli redeployment and Palestinian elections," says Robert Pelletreau, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs. "Elections will be a major breakthrough." The timing of the elections is far from certain, however, and some Palestinians question whether they will be truly democratic...
...individuals have died in jail, their bodies bearing signs of torture. Authorities have curtailed the free circulation of newspapers from time to time and detained a handful of journalists. Nevertheless, prison officials have allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross access to detainees, and the Palestinian Authority did license Hamas to publish a journal...
...avoiding disaster, Arafat has in his year of governing put an irreversible cast on the peace process and on progress toward true Palestinian independence, and that is surely a signal accomplishment. The Palestinians, however, are wondering what kind of society that independence will bring them. "I need to feel improvements in my daily life," says Nabil Abu Muaileq, a civil engineer in Gaza City, "not just see big leaders on TV talking about it." Hisham Saleh, a butcher in the West Bank city of el-Bireh, pauses from his work and says, "Judging from what's happened in Gaza...