Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Interim Agreement signed Oct. 23 at the Wye Plantation represents a crystallization of the asymmetries of the rights of Palestinians and Israeli Jews in the Middle East. The Wye Memorandum secures permanent Israeli control of at least 60 percent of the West Bank and limited Palestinian autonomy of at most 40 percent in the undefined future. Its stipulations regarding Israeli security severely undercut the human rights of native Palestinian inhabitants. Most fundamentally, like the Oslo Accords, it does not take into account essential components of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict...
...Memorandum cannot be understood except in the context of the Oslo Accords which preceded it. The Accords were to be the actualization of the "land for peace" model which many thought would culminate in a Palestinian state. But in fact, the Accords set the framework for a very limited Palestinian autonomy, delegating to the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) the dirty job of monitoring the activities of Palestinians and suppressing Palestinian struggle for true self-determination and human rights. Worst, the Accords gave the P.A. very little ability to improve the life conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza regarding...
...involvement in the Middle East, as both a journalist and an academic, coincided with the nastiest period of the cold war in that part of the world--when the KGB, for example, was making weapons drops off the coast of Aden for radical Palestinian guerrillas. During this period, he developed close working relationships with some of the U.S.'s least favorite rulers, most notoriously with Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. According to widespread but unconfirmed reports, he worked for the KGB at this time. Primakov never comments on the allegations, though the fact that...
...Netanyahu sees the agenda for a Palestinian National Council session to be addressed by President Clinton in December as a deal breaker. The Israelis insist the PNC must vote to excise anti-Israel clauses from its charter; the Palestinians (with Washington concurring) say they already have, and don't intend to vote again. "The only reason to repeat the vote would be because the Israelis are telling them to," says Beyer. "It's an issue of dignity -- the Palestinians can't be expected to do whatever the Israelis say, no matter how ridiculous." So who needs Hamas? The peace process...
...also confessed to being responsible for two recent attacks in Hebron: a fatal stabbing and a grenade assault that wounded 14 soldiers. Apparently SALIM SARSOUR, 29, did all this while being courted by Shinbet, Israel's internal-security agency, to inform on the militant group Hamas. According to a Palestinian intelligence official, one of Sarsour's group, in detention after the Beersheba attack, claims Sarsour told him that he had multiple meetings with Shinbet officers; that he was given $1,000, in part to pay for a mobile phone to facilitate contacts with Shinbet; and that his Shinbet handlers helped...