Word: palestinian
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JERUSALEM: The Israeli Defense Force moved tanks, troops and helicopters into the Gaza Strip and West Bank on Thursday as clashes with Palestinian police and demonstrators continued in the bloodiest exchanges since 1993. After three days of gunfire, at least 42 Palestinians and 11 Israelis are dead, and some 400 Palestinians and 32 Israelis have been wounded. Thousands of stone-throwing Palestinain demonstrators in the Gaza Strip attacked the small Jewish settlements of Netzarim and Kfar Darom. "There's been violence in Jerusalem's old city and at checkpoints all along the West Bank," reports TIME's Jean Max from...
...again last Tuesday, when both men spoke to a group of Jewish leaders in New York. Kemp's pandering was so obvious that Gore, who had a partisan refutation in his pocket, instead delivered a statesmanlike talk boldly confirming the Administration's frustration with the anti-Palestinian policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who sat glumly only five feet away. The next crucial confrontation will come in the vice-presidential debate next month...
...peace process, not quite a small step. Before his election as Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu had sworn he would never deign to meet Yasser Arafat, a man he considered little more than a terrorist. Last week, however, Netanyahu was finally nudged into a handshake with the Palestinian leader. It was an enormous psychological hurdle for the Israeli leader. His Palestinian partners, though, felt as if they were beginning a relationship from scratch...
Denials notwithstanding, Netanyahu had plainly been pressured into the summit. In his first three months in office he had assiduously shunned Arafat and frozen plans to expand Palestinian self-rule, as promised in previously signed accords. Then Israeli intelligence agencies began warning that as a result, Arafat was fast losing standing among his people and that instability, perhaps violence, might follow. Finally, Israel's dovish President, Ezer Weizman, threatened publicly that if Netanyahu would not meet Arafat, he would. Netanyahu agreed to a summit...
...summit produced no breakthroughs on the next steps of interim Palestinian self-rule: an Israeli redeployment in Hebron, the last major Palestinian city still under full occupation, plus further withdrawals in the West Bank. To Palestinian dismay, Netanyahu insisted on reopening the Hebron agreement already completed by the previous Labor government. And while Netanyahu said last week that he may eventually be prepared to start discussions on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, those negotiations had already begun under Labor. Publicly, Arafat's aides praised last week's summit, but privately they expressed reservations. Said...