Word: palestinian
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Israel took a step toward broadening Palestinian self-rule by handing over a large West Bank school system -- Ramallah -- to Palestinian control. All West Bank schools are to be in Palestinian hands by Sept. 1, the start of the school year...
...wave of terror, personified by Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, is ebbing. "Carlos," says Paul Wilkinson, an expert on terrorism at St. Andrews University in Scotland, "symbolized a terrorism of the extreme left which has almost died out in Europe." Carlos and his Soviet, Marxist and leftist Palestinian allies represent failed ideologies. The inheritors today are nameless Islamic extremists from Hizballah, Hamas and their sponsors -- everyone thinks first of Iran as chief sponsor -- who see themselves as the force of the future in the Middle East. While their cause is the same -- derailing the peace process and destroying Israel -- the Islamists...
...chairman Yasser Arafat's Palestinian National Authority arrested at least 35 suspected Muslim extremists after Israel threatened to halt talks over expanding Palestinian self-rule to the entire Gaza strip. Arafat's move came a day after gunmen from the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, killed an Israeli and wounded six others in drive-by shootings in Gaza. The extremists said Arafat's police were already confiscating weapons from Hamas members, a policy shift that TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says is unprecedented and risky. While it may show the Israelis that Arafat is serious about peace, Beyer says...
...develop an economy beyond make-work, the Palestinians need to adopt tax laws and business regulations to attract capital, both from the large Palestinian diaspora, which has quietly assembled a $200 million investment fund, and from foreigners. But while the Palestinian Authority seeks out international funds, it resists encouraging investment from Israelis. That attitude will have to change, since even senior P.L.O. officials estimate that much development money must come from private sources, and the likeliest ones are in nearby Israel...