Word: palestinians
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According to Tadros, the magnitude of the Palestinian response is the result of general frustrations with the Israeli stance toward the peace process since Netanyahu's election...
...While the timing of the opening of the tunnel, on Netanyahu's part, was not the wisest, that in no way excuses the violence initiated by the Palestinian rioters on Israelis," Segal said. "I was shocked that for the first time, Palestinian police fired on Israeli soldiers, but also I appreciate the Palestinian police's efforts yesterday of controlling rioters...
Tadros said the Israeli soldiers have wrongly fired on rock-throwing Palestinian youths, justifying the retaliatory fire of Palestinian police...
...Middle East. Yet the same first rule of containment is at issue. Last week's riots in Gaza underscore a powerful concern, for they make clear that Yassir Arafat cannot control the land he governs. If the peace process advances in such a way that an autonomous Palestinian state on the Israeli border is at issue, perhaps we should remember these events and their broader implications. A weak government is an invitation to chaos and its usual parasite in the Middle East, Islamic fundamentalism...
...herald a difficult period for U.S. relations in the Middle East. "If Mubarak had gone to Washington, it would have implied a certain confidence in the peace talks," says TIME's Scot MacLeod. "But his refusal means he is concerned a summit that makes no substantial concessions for the Palestinians will give the status quo a kind of legitimacy. If Arafat sits down with Netanyahu, in Mubarak's view, the Palestinian leader will ease condemnation of Israeli government actions at a time when international opinion leans against the Israelis. Mubarak believes Arafat shouldn't lower the temperature without getting something...