Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who organized a series of off-the-record meetings between high-ranking Israeli and Palestinian security officials, said one of the most important issues for future negotiations is the establishment of a stable Palestinian police and internal security force...
...enemies feeling their way toward reconciliation speak wisely in tones of caution. In this case the very flatness of the words was reassuring; Arafat and Rabin had left themselves no room for ambiguity, evasion or disavowal. The veteran antagonists had actually put on paper the idea that generations of Palestinian and Israeli leaders, themselves included, had vowed never to entertain: no longer will Israel and the P.L.O. try to destroy each other. Instead they will attempt to live side by side in peace. What had justly been called the world's most intractable problem suddenly looked solvable...
...Government of Israel has decided to recognize the P.L.O. as the representative of the Palestinian people...
...astonishing as this step is, nothing about the future will be easy. Even making the arrangements for signing the Declaration of Principles for Palestinian self-rule in Washington this week had its delicate moments. At the request of both sides, President Bill Clinton arranged the splashy White House ceremony to give the process a boost (and, of course, to associate his Administration with an accord the U.S. had not directly helped negotiate). Clinton left it up to both sides to pick the representatives, and on Friday the Israelis planned to send Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and the Palestinians P.L.O. Executive...
...Israeli and foreign money joins with Palestinian labor and the brains of both sides to build roads, water projects, electric and communication grids -- all contemplated in the Israeli-P.L.O. Declaration of Principles for Palestinian self-rule -- and if other Arab states join in cooperative projects to make the desert bloom, the prospects should convince anyone that peace pays better than hate. "We have the chance to see Israel become the nucleus of a very prosperous Mideast," says Dan Gillerman, chairman of the Federation of the Israeli Chambers of Commerce. The Palestinians have the chance to start building a national...