Word: palestinian
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...reluctance to support the Oslo Accords in the first place. The valid suspicion of Israeli moderates over the questionable issue of placing automatic machine guns into their enemy's hands gained immeasurable credibility when the barrels of those very guns were directed against the Israelis themselves last week. A Palestinian witness, confirmed by both The New York Times and The Washington Post, admitted that the Palestinian security forces fired live ammunition upon Israeli soldiers after seeing the Israelis disperse violent protesters with rubber bullets and tear...
...Palestinian police proved beyond a doubt that when push comes to shove, or as the case may be, when a slingshot becomes a well-directed gun barrel, they are not impartial enforcers of the peace process; their allegiance to the Palestinian cause takes priority over this process. This is not the first instance of the armed Palestinian forces' lack of resolve or so-called "inability" to restrain the enemies of peace. Original fears that the Palestinian security forces were not adequately equipped to deal with their own extremists have been substituted for the more worrisome concern that they...
...Palestinian "security" forces have, ironically, contributed to a most insecure situation. An arms build-up of this magnitude in such a volatile region of the world is a frightening portent. In countries which are still battling to put a lid on the hazards posed by unconventional warfare, there is hardly a need for thousands of extra automatic weapons, least of all in unpredictable, unaccountable and untrustworthy hands. The new cache of arms also acts as a continual threat, politically if not militarily, to Israel's position of strength and stability in a region with no other truly democratic states...
According to Riaz, the protest was not intended to be antagonistic, but was meant to highlight the idea of Palestinian self-determination and autonomy...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met for face-to-face talks Tuesday at the White House for the first time since riots last week in Jerusalem raised new doubts about the future of peace negotiations. President Clinton is hosting a two-day summit between the two leaders and Jordan's King Hussein. TIME's Lewis Simons reports that both sides are eager to reverse the violence that erupted after Israel opened a controversial tunnel in Arab East Jerusalem near Muslim holy sites. "Netanyahu and Arafat felt things escalated beyond what they anticipated...