Word: palestinians
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HEBRON: One day after President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in search of common ground over the troubled Middle East relations, Hebron suffered its bloodiest riots in months as some called for a return to the Intefadeh. Jewish seminary students shot and killed one Palestinian, sparking five hours of fierce rioting in which Israeli troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets, killing two Palestinians and injuring dozens. While many on both sides believe the violence will continue unless the U.S. takes a more active involvement, Clinton said Tuesday he is not prepared to host a Camp David...
...when the Hebron agreement was finally signed after four months of excruciating bargaining, the Israeli Prime Minister was still not a winner. Palestinians came away convinced that Netanyahu would never yield anything to them except under extreme duress. Many Israelis wondered what real security advantage all the tension and ill will had gained them. What the rest of the world regarded as a significant breakthrough for peace ranked as total betrayal to Jewish settlers and hard-line nationalists. At bottom, both his Palestinian foes and his right-wing faithful suspected the Prime Minister of terminal insincerity...
...Homa, it looked like another reckless move to appease the right wing of his coalition. This would be the last link in a chain of settlements surrounding the city that would permanently cut off the Arab part of Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Nothing inflames Palestinian opinion more than the creation of "new facts on the ground," especially those designed to foreclose Arab claims to the Holy City. Nor did the government make much pretense that it was doing anything less. "The struggle for Jerusalem has begun," said Internal Security Minister Avigdor Kahalani. "When we take this...
...week later, Palestinians were stung again when Netanyahu announced that Israel would fulfill its obligation to make another partial pullback from the West Bank but would vacate just 9% of the land still under occupation--of which only 2% was not already under shared Israeli-Palestinian authority. Israeli nationalists were up in arms again at the "giveaway," while Palestinians had expected to retrieve at least 20% or 30% of the West Bank. Arafat was so enraged that he rejected the handover and refused to take any calls from Netanyahu...
...under way last week seemed so unnecessary, so calculated to disrupt the delicate proceedings. To reassure his hard-line constituents that he would not back down, Netanyahu complained he was "fed up" with international charges that "everything we do is a violation of the accords and everything the Palestinians say is in compliance." To appease the peace camp, he tossed out an old proposal to accelerate the final-status talks so that agreement on the hard issues--such as Jerusalem, borders, Palestinian sovereignty and Jewish settlements--could be reached within six months...