Word: palestinian
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Diplomatic signing ceremonies are supposed to be formal affairs, choreographed to the dotted i and not a handshake out of place. So the 2,500 guests in Cairo's International Conference Center, gathered to see Israel and the P.L.O. seal an agreement to begin Palestinian self-rule, were astonished by the drama unfolding among the dignitaries onstage. For 35 minutes, while the principals came and went from the podium, their attention was all too plainly elsewhere. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres remonstrated with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, Prime Minister ^ Yitzhak Rabin with Peres, Arafat with Egyptian President Hosni...
...bargaining teams also resolved the tricky question of jurisdiction over Israelis arrested for wrongdoing in the Palestinian enclaves. Palestinian authorities will deal with Israelis accused of minor offenses, while Israeli courts will take over major crimes. On the sensitive subject of the 8,500 Palestinians detained in Israeli jails, the two sides agreed that 5,000 will be released within two weeks after the signing of the accord...
...been left for Rabin and Arafat to come to terms on the size of the self-rule district around Jericho. Israel prefers a token zone of 20 sq. mi., whereas the P.L.O. wants twice that area. The two leaders must also decide whether a Palestinian policeman will be stationed midway on the Jordan River bridge. It seems a minor point, but to the P.L.O. such a presence would go far to create an image of Palestinian sovereignty -- which is precisely why the Israelis oppose...
Visible change should come to the territories within 24 hours of the signing ceremony in Cairo, when 1,000 Palestinian policemen are scheduled to arrive in the Gaza Strip and Jericho as Israeli troops pull out. An additional 8,000 police will gradually be deployed. The P.L.O. is expected to make great fanfare out of the arrival of the first police in order to stir up public enthusiasm for self-rule. Spirits have been soured by the slow-moving negotiations as well as by tight restrictions locking out Palestinians who work in Israel, imposed after 13 Israelis died in suicide...
Washington bungles its handling of a Palestinian informant...