Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority will arrest 30 Palestinians suspected of murder, reduce its police force of 40,000 to the previously agreed-upon limit of 30,000 and rescind the 26 clauses in the Palestinian National Covenant that call for the destruction of the Jewish state...
While Wisse said she is chiefly worried about the agreement's effect on Israel, Graham said he is most upset over violations of human rights on the Palestinian side in the wake of the talks...
...Palestinian Authority will now crack down even harder on so-called terrorists, which means they'll end up cracking down on people who have nothing to do with terrorism," Graham said, referring to Arafat's commitment to check the violently anti-Israel forces in his polity...
...There is every evidence that in the wake of Wye, there has been a series of further land seizures by settlers and every indication that the Palestinian Authority has been arresting people right and left with little regard for innocence and guilt," he added...
...part of the Wye agreement, President Clinton committed the Central Intelligence Agency to monitoring Palestinian efforts to contain terrorism. Harvard professors offered varying takes on America's assumption of this responsibility...