Word: palestinian
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...negotiations are caught in a vicious circle. For the Palestinians, the key issue is what was promised in the 1993 accord: moving Israeli troops out of West Bank towns and opening the way for Palestinian elections. Arafat told Rabin that his mandate must be extended throughout the territories. But Rabin is in no mood to withdraw the army from areas where Israeli settlers need protection...
...effort to revive the flagging peace process, the leaders of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the p.l.o. met in Cairo. At the top of their agenda: a rash of terrorist attacks by radical Palestinian groups against Israeli soldiers and civilians, and the continuing expansion of Jewish settlements in occupied territory...
Weekend talks among Mideast foreign ministers in Washington, D.C. produced joint concessions in the stalled Israel-PLO peace talks, including a Palestinian pledge to root out terrorists in Gaza and Israeli promises to pull back its troops from the region and allow Palestinian elections. After the talks concluded on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the concessions "will contribute significantly" to a Thursday summit between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. But despite a personal appeal from President Clinton, Israel refused to end at once a 23-day closure of the Gaza border that...
...thought to be the chief hit man for Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal has been arrested in southern Lebanon. Security officials there disclosed today that they had seized Mahmoud Khaled Eintour, 48, also known as Abu Ali Majed, the man who allegedly headed the assassination branch of Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council. Lebanese officials, who plan to try Eintour on kidnapping and murder charges, blame him for hijacking a French yacht off Gaza in 1987 and arranging the killing of a top Jordanian diplomat last year. Nidal himself tops most wanted lists in the U.S., Europe and the Mideast...
...first Israeli-Palestinian meeting sincelast week's Cairo peace summitonly plunged relations deeper into crisis, as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat failed to agree on any way to expand Palestinian authority without endangering Israeli security. After 2 1/2 hours of talks, a visibly angry Arafat lashed out at Rabin's refusal to lift a 19-day closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, imposed after militant Islamic Jihad bombers killed 21 Israelis last month. "If there is an Israeli wish for political separation, then we welcome it. But we will not welcome that they...