Word: palestinians
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...Palestinian security officials had a plan. Contemplating a new confrontation with the Israeli military, they took an inventory of all the tractors and bulldozers in the West Bank. Then they devised a system for appropriating the machinery to dig ditches and build other obstacles to slow an Israeli advance. But how to test the scheme? In mid-January an opportunity was literally heaven-sent. When a rare blizzard blanketed the West Bank with snow, Palestinian authorities quickly seized the earthmovers under the pretense of clearing the roads. In fact, the action was a drill...
...visit to the region this week by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has focused the spotlight on diplomacy for the moment. But with the peace process stalled, military commanders will get no rest. The Israeli army has long plotted and rehearsed its options in the Palestinian territories; Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's forces are now rushing to catch...
Implausible as it may seem amid the clamor of scandal, President Clinton this week managed to launch a mechanism for restoring the Mideast peace process. The key to Clinton?s proposal to break the deadlock is breaking up the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Palestinian security measures into a series of reciprocal phases. That would delay final status negotiations until both sides? compliance with their undertakings restores a measure of mutual trust, says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer...
...come up with a credible West Bank withdrawal plan, the President Tuesday eschewed the traditional formal working lunch with his guest, leaving the Israeli leader to sup with Al Gore in the basement of the White House staff canteen. The message to Netanyahu will be unmistakable if the Palestinian leader gets table service with the President...
...less town-proud note, Hamad sees the competition for pilgrim dollars as a major challenge for the Palestinian Authority: ?You can see Jesus? birthplace in two minutes. After that, you need to eat lunch or dinner, to relax or stay in a hotel ? Bethlehem lacks these facilities, and we cannot attract tourists unless they are built.? In other words, 2,000 years after Christ?s birth, visitors to the town are still unlikely to find room...