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...Allis from Jerusalem. "The Israeli government's hands are virtually tied. They can't get the settlers out of Hebron voluntarily, and it would be political suicide to force them out. Hebron is holding up the peace talks." Today's violence came on the second anniversary of the Israeli-PLO accord, signed in Oslo in 1993. Hebron is the main obstacle between Israel and the PLO as they negotiate on expanding Palestinian autonomy to the West Bank. Because of the incident, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO chief Yasser Arafat postponed a meeting on Hebron until the weekend. Israel...
Israel detailed plans for a phased withdrawal from West Bank towns before Palestinian elections this year, provided that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's government stops militants who oppose peacemaking from attacking Israelis in the self-rule areas. "I think that the Palestinians who enter the cities understand very well that if there will be terrorism, everything that was agreed upon will not stand the test of reality," Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told a news conference. Peres and Arafat set July 25 as a target date to signthe emerging accord, already a year overdue and one of the key preconditions...
Stepping up retaliation following last Sunday's terror bombings, Yasser Arafat ordered PLO security forces todisarm militant Islamic opponentsin Gaza, despite threats that such action couldtrigger a Palestinian civil war. "It's an impossible mission", says TIME Israel reporter Jamil Hamad. "Gaza is overcrowded, the people give terrorists cover, and the PLO police are not qualified to do the job." The mood is so tense, says Hamad, thatPalestinians now complain publiclythat PLO officers are mistreating them and abusing children. One furious Palestinian mother told Hamad today that -- unlike in the days of Israeli control -- many of those arrested are jailed...
...PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's security forces risked setting off a Palestinian civil war, arresting 112 followers of Hamas and Islamic Jihad today to retaliate forsuicide bombingsthat killed seven Israelis and an American college student Sunday. Militant Islamic leaders threatened resistance against Arafat's government: "If he (Arafat) practices this behavior, we will defend ourselves by all means," warned Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader. The bombings, near Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, injured more than 40 people. Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old junior at Brandeis University on vacation for Passover, died today of her wounds. Arafat's police...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher today set out for Cairo to begin a five-nation drive to get Mideast peace talks back on track. Christopher is flying overnight to Cairo and is slated to continue to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Jordan, plus a Gaza visit with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Since Christopher last touched down in the region three months ago, the peace process has gotten bogged down by Israel's quarreling with the Palestinians, Syria and Egypt, while Israel's tentative peace deal with Jordan hit a financial snag...