Word: palestinian
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...also confessed to being responsible for two recent attacks in Hebron: a fatal stabbing and a grenade assault that wounded 14 soldiers. Apparently, he did all this while being courted by Shin Bet, Israel?s internal-security agency, to inform on the militant group Hamas. According to a Palestinian intelligence official, one of Sarsour?s cohort, in detention after the Beersheba attack, claims Sarsour told him that he had multiple meetings with Shin Bet officers; that he was given $1,000, in part to pay for a mobile phone to facilitate contacts with Shin Bet; and that his Shin...
...taken Israelis and Palestinians 19 months of deadlock, and eight days of non-stop negotiations, to achieve an interim deal that does little more than implement the next "land-for-peace" stage of the Oslo agreement. When -- and if -- Friday's agreements are put into practice, the two sides will still have to negotiate what Oslo called the "final status" issues. These include the impossibly tricky questions of a Palestinian state, Israeli settlers in Palestinian territories and even the future of Jerusalem...
...both sides time to learn to trust each other in quid-pro-quo steps before tackling the most difficult hurdle. But, far from building mutual confidence, the last four years have been a disaster. Both sides are girding for confrontation next May, when Yasser Arafat intends to declare a Palestinian state regardless of Israel's objections. Indeed, a cynical view might hold that both sides came to Wye in order to position themselves most favorably in U.S. eyes for that confrontation. "Netanyahu's interest remains to have a peace process without an end point, to simply keep the ball rolling...
...immediate danger is that a major Hamas attack will goad Netanyahu to back out of conceding land for peace. Palestinian support for the peace process is also at a low ebb. "The mood has changed," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "The optimism has given way to indifference and anxiety. Don't expect Palestinians to celebrate this agreement, because they doubt whether Netanyahu plans to implement any deal. For the Palestinians, Oslo was the compromise, and now this is the compromise of the compromise...
Although Clinton has staked a lot politically on these talks, it is up to the two grown men who run Israel and the Palestinian Authority to think of what is best for the future of their peoples, and not Secretary of State Madeline K. Albright, Dennis Ross or others who have proven themselves not up to the task...