Word: palestinians
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JERUSALEM: Internal political considerations prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from beginning the New Year with an agreement in place on Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron. Netanyahu was forced to postpone his New Year?s Eve summit with Arafat in order to guide his 1997 budget through the Israeli Knesset as crucial close votes coincided with the peace talks. U.S. mediator Dennis Ross said that while the two sides were very close on the Hebron agreement, ?We are not there yet.? While peace is vital to Israel, Netanyahu confronted a domestic challenge that kept...
...between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat ended without a resolution on Hebron. While the three-hour talk was "extremely productive," according to Ross, the two leaders could not agree on a plan for pulling out troops from the West Bank city. Other issues of contention: joint Israeli-Palestinian patrols, the right of "hot pursuit" for Israeli police into Palestinian territory, and a timetable for promised Israeli withdrawals from more rural areas of the West Bank. Israel was scheduled to remove soldiers from Hebron in March, but delayed the pullout after a wave of suicide bombings in Israel. Neither...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank: Increased tension between Israel and Palestinians has tempered celebration of the second Christmas in Bethlehem under Palestinian rule. While last year's Christmas Eve turned into a joyous national celebration, Tuesday's atmosphere was more subdued, reflecting recent setbacks and delays in Arab- Israeli peace negotiations. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who failed to reach an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Israel's long-delayed pullout from nearby Hebron, was at the biblical birth place of Jesus to commemorate Christmas. Tourists traveling to Bethlehem were met with a gantlet of Israeli checkpoints, sniper towers...
...fallout from September's miniwar between Israelis and Palestinians continues. Israeli intelligence reports that Yasser Arafat's security forces, worried about another armed confrontation, are working around the clock to obtain an arsenal of antitank and antiaircraft missiles--weapons they are forbidden to have under the Oslo accords. The arms would give Palestinian forces a more credible response to the tanks and attack helicopters that the Israeli army deployed last time. Palestinian security officials deny any official involvement in weapons smuggling but acknowledge that their forces already possess dozens of LAW antitank missiles confiscated from or donated by local Islamic...
...interview, he voiced hope that both Israeli and Palestinian youth would learn to respect each other and be "guided by the dictates of democracy...