Word: palestinians
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...empty hillside on the southern reaches of Jerusalem was just an obscure plot with a Hebrew name and an Arabic one. But as big yellow bulldozers began to claim the hill for Jewish houses, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was converting the landscape into a perilous flash point. Palestinians hurled stones, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, Arab leaders issued harsh denunciations, and every single friend of Israel's disapproved. Defying them all, knowing he risked far more serious violence, Netanyahu ordered the bulldozers to dig on. Now history will decide whether those few square yards were a necessary, legitimate...
Arafat played his own devil's hand. As anger rose over Har Homa, the wily Palestinian leader publicly ordered his followers to abjure violence and protest peacefully--and also freed dozens of Hamas warriors from Palestinian jail cells, including military-operations chief Ibrahim Maqadmah. If he did not literally give "the green light" for the attack, as Netanyahu charged, he did not have to. Within minutes, Hamas proudly claimed responsibility. At a rally in Gaza, Maqadmah bragged, "Jerusalem will not be restored by negotiations but only by holy...
Indeed, many Israelis fear this is only the beginning of a new terror offensive like the one last year that drove Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres from office. Allowing even one bombing to happen, though, will boomerang harshly on the Palestinians. Israel immediately closed off the territories and promised retaliation; Netanyahu has always kept open the option of sending Israeli troops back into the areas now under Palestinian control. Even worse, he might decide to use the bombing as a pretext to abandon, once and for all, the talks he has always opposed...
JERUSALEM: "Violence, sadly, is the only card the Palestinians have," notes TIME's Johanna McGeary. Despite two days of shuttle diplomacy by Dennis Ross, the Palestinians continue to play it on Friday. For the ninth straight day, Palestinians and Israeli police traded rocks and fire-bombs for tear gas and rubber bullets in Hebron. Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Yasser Arafat unleashes militants at will, using violence as a bargaining chip. He and insisted Friday on a decisive crackdown. That seems unlikely. "Arafat has to weigh whether a crackdown is worth the political price he will pay with the right," notes...
...true, the news poses a difficult diplomatic problem for the U.S. of how to retaliate against a growing power in the Persian Gulf, notes TIME's Scott MacLeod. "A military response could escalate anti-American feeling throughout the Gulf, already high because of American support for Israel in the Palestinian crisis. On the other hand, U.S. officials would be dismayed to learn that the Khobar blast was the work of Saudi Sunnis, since this would suggest a deeper opposition to the pro-American Saudi regime than had previously been thought." Although the Saudi government would like to have Al-Sayegh...