Word: palestinians
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...road to a Palestinian state may now be open, but Palestinians aren?t exactly queuing up at the on-ramps. Yasser Arafat Tuesday approved a draft agreement to open a direct road link between the Palestinian-controlled territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which he plans to combine into a Palestinian state. But Palestinians will be allowed to travel the road only at Israel?s discretion, and that?s left many of Arafat?s constituents angry and frustrated. "To travel this road to Gaza in my car, I?ll need a permit from the Israelis," says TIME West...
Professor Edward Said is the leading Palestinian advocate and propagandist in the U.S. His influence derives not just from the quality of his prose and the depth of his passion but also from his personal history. For years he has been telling the world that he grew up in Jerusalem but that when he was 12, as the Zionists came to power and established Israel, his entire family became refugees in Egypt...
...says Justus Reid Weiner, who, after three years of research, reported in Commentary that 1) Said grew up in Cairo, son of a Palestinian who emigrated to the U.S. in 1911, became an American citizen, then moved to Egypt; 2) Said was educated in Egypt, not at St. George's Anglican preparatory school in Jerusalem; and 3) "My beautiful old house" in Jerusalem, now lost forever to the Jews and before which he posed for documentary cameras and magazine profiles, was in fact never...
...much as Jordan is forced to walk a tightrope between the interests of a broader Middle East peace and the sentiments of ordinary Jordanians, Hamas too has no interest in a confrontation with Jordan. The last time Palestinian exiles and their descendants, who now make up a majority of the Jordanian population, challenged the Hashemite throne ? in the "Black September" of 1970 ? the response was swift and brutal, leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and the PLO in exile. "Hamas will maintain that its struggle is with Israel and it has no quarrel with any Arab state," says Hamad. So while...
While Barak's late-night maneuver may have undermined Levy's clout as a negotiator, reaching agreement on the contentious final-status issues may require all of Barak's political authority, and then some. Palestinian sources said the meeting was positive, and had been initiated by Barak to reassure Arafat after the Palestinians objected to comments by the Israeli leader on West Bank settlements and other issues. The Israeli leader has adopted an approach dramatically different to that of his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking to combine concessions to conservative constituencies at home with parallel concessions on other fronts...