Word: palestinians
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...troops to continue to patrol both the streets of Hebron and the corridor between Hebron and the nearby Israeli town of Kiryat Arba, gradually pulling out if no violence occurs. An Israeli government spokesman said the plan simply increases attention to security issues, but Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, dismissed it entirely as a violation of earlier agreements: "We do not accept anything short of the implementation of the accord. The negotiations cannot be reopened." Under the original agreement, Israeli troops would vacate 80 percent of Hebron, a city of 94,000 Palestinians, and only patrol about...
...troops to continue to patrol both the streets of Hebron and the corridor between Hebron and the nearby Israeli town of Kiryat Arba, gradually pulling out if no violence occurs. An Israeli government spokesman said the plan simply increases attention to security issues, but Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, dismissed it entirely as a violation of earlier agreements: "We do not accept anything short of the implementation of the accord. The negotiations cannot be reopened." Under the original agreement, Israeli troops would vacate 80 percent of Hebron, a city of 94,000 Palestinians, and only patrol about...
...troops to continue to patrol both the streets of Hebron and the corridor between Hebron and the nearby Israeli town of Kiryat Arba, gradually pulling out if no violence occurs. An Israeli government spokesman said the plan simply increases attention to security issues, but Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, dismissed it entirely as a violation of earlier agreements: "We do not accept anything short of the implementation of the accord. The negotiations cannot be reopened." Under the original agreement, Israeli troops would vacate 80 percent of Hebron, a city of 94,000 Palestinians, and only patrol about...
...began in the predawn darkness of Sept. 5, 1972, when eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September scaled the wire fence surrounding the Olympic Village and burst into the apartments housing the Israeli contingent--fatally shooting two athletes before taking hostage nine more. Much of the excruciating and often surreal 20-hour stalemate that followed was played out live on television, an eerie prelude to last week's onscreen horror...
JERUSALEM: Before Benjamin Netanyahu won the Prime Ministership from Shimon Peres, Israeli officials had already struck a deal to create a Palestinian state, according to a senior adviser to Peres. In exchange for statehood, the Palestinians were prepared to drop demands for a capital in East Jerusalem, and allow Israel to annex about 10 percent of the West Bank. That understanding has been tabled by Netanyahu. His spokesman describes the deal as an "intellectual exercise," since neither side had formally agreed to them. Peres and Arafat reportedly had some doubts about the proposed settlement, but felt the understandings might serve...