Word: palestinians
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...past year, Christopher has focused his efforts on the Middle East, specifically, facilitating the peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. In addition, he has spent time smoothing relations in China and has kept an eye on the mass demonstrations against President Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia...
JERUSALEM: Yasser Arafat angrily rejected an Israeli compromise proposal to complete its troop withdrawal from the West Bank in May 1998, a year earlier than Netanyahu has previously offered. For Arafat, it remains a year too late. U.S. envoy Dennis Ross presented the proposal to the Palestinian leader in what an Arafat aide described as an "extremely tense" six-hour meeting that lasted until early today. "The talks have hit a serious crisis," Arafat spokesman Nabil Abourdeneh told Voice of Palestine radio. "The Israelis are threatening the peace process by making such proposals." The terms for the Israeli removal from...
Additionally, we applaud the efforts of both Israeli and Palestinian forces to arrest the attacker and to prevent a potentially explosive situation from escalating. It is upon this sort of cooperation that peace can be built...
...attacker intended to sabotage efforts by Israeli and Palestinian officials to resolve disagreements about the control of Hebron. We have faith that this most recent terrorist act will not delay conclusion of these negotiations. And we hope and pray that Israelis and Palestinians will build on these agreements and make the dream of peace a reality, speedily and in our time. --David Andorsky '97, chair, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Adam Kleinbaum '98, chair-elect, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Yuval Segal '97, co-chair, Harvard Students for Israel
JERUSALEM: Undaunted by Sunday's fruitless pre-dawn meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, U.S. Middle Eastern envoy Dennis Ross spent Monday prodding the two leaders to meet again to resolve the impasse over a Hebron deal. According to an agreement signed in 1995, Israel was supposed to pull troops out of Hebron, the last occupied town in the West Bank, by March 1996. But Netanyahu has delayed the troop removal, saying the 500 Jewish settlers living in Hebron still need protection from Palestinians. While Israel says it remains committed to an eventual...