Word: palestinian
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Hence the great emphasis in the Israel- P.L.O. peace accord on economic cooperation and regional development. (It takes up nearly a quarter of the text.) The peace plan hinges on the assumption that once the Palestinians are given the opportunity to build their own homeland, they will find enough satisfaction in building to give up fighting. Which explains all the clauses devoted to transportation links and development banks, canal digging and grid linking -- mundane schemes of all kinds between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territory that conjure up a vision of nothing less than Benelux- on-the-Jordan...
Adnan sat in the sand with some of his Palestinian neighbors just a few yards away from an open sewer in the Gaza Strip's Shati Camp and promised the destruction of Israel. "Yasser Arafat means nothing to me," he said. "I want all of Palestine back." Adnan, who gave only his first name for fear of arrest by military authorities, lost his job in Israel last March when the government sealed off the violence-riddled Gaza Strip. "My parents were thrown out of their town in 1948," says Adnan, 25. "Any Russian Jew can live there...
...Israeli Defense Forces see the militant group as a double security threat once the territories are granted autonomy. They fear Hamas will go after Israeli settlers and the new Palestinian authorities in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, provoking reprisals that could easily turn into a bloodbath. They are also worried about how much easier it will be to stage large-scale terrorist operations into Israel. The Israelis will still command the bridge connecting Jordan and Jericho, but they will no longer control Gaza port. Today the Palestinians have no missiles that can reach Israel from the occupied territories...
...course, he has reason to be cautious. So does the P.L.O. In subscribing to a deal that for now offers only limited gains, Yasser Arafat has incurred assassination threats from Palestinian hard-liners in exile. Conflict for these warriors has become a way of life, rejection their religion. It will take all Arafat's reputed wizardry to keep them in check...
...from both sides is an obvious pitfall. If negotiators do not hurry along specifics for enacting the deal, naysayers could niggle it to death. The P.L.O. must transform its loose structure, unruly factions and preference for ambiguity into practical governance. Arab states, which have always sought to keep the Palestinian issue under their thumb, will need to be mollified into cooperation. But since the Palestinian millstone has prevented them from bringing prosperity to their own societies, they appear ready to go along...