Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kozyrev, as co- sponsors, announced that they would soon invite the parties to a ninth round of talks in April. Israel and the Arab countries had been eager to resume anyway, but were further attracted by Christopher's promise to thrust the U.S. more deeply into the negotiations. The Palestinian negotiators felt similarly but have been losing popularity to Hamas; they held out for a face- saving Israeli concession. Christopher pressed Jerusalem to return the deportees faster and improve conditions in the occupied territories. Now if the Palestinians don't show up in April, says a U.S. official, "that...
...PALESTINIAN FACTIONS...
...MIDST OF A BAD SEAson. Gunmen shot an Israeli couple in their automobile last Sunday, injuring both; the next day stone throwers who hit a car fractured the skull of an infant passenger. At a Jerusalem bus stop on the same day, an assailant believed to be Palestinian stabbed a man to death and injured a woman before fleeing. Israeli soldiers shot and killed five Palestinians last week, for a total of 18 this month. The blood swapping comes amid tensions over the deportation in December of about 400 Palestinians as well as the current effort to resume Middle East...
Grossman said he thought that Israel's settlement of the question of the Palestinian deportees had been "satisfactory" to all concerned...
...large part of that stubbornness arises from Rabin's confidence that ultimately the U.S. will -- as it always has -- veto any U.N. punishment of Israel. The Palestinians also expect that. Says Sa'eb Erakat, a Palestinian delegate to the Middle East peace talks: "Anybody who thinks that Clinton will start his presidency off by imposing sanctions on Israel is crazy...