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...unprecedented clash with their own people, PLO police fired on Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza City -- killing 13 people and setting off riots aimed at undermining PLO chairmanYasser Arafat's increasingly shaky rule. TIME reporter Jamil Hamad, who was on the scene, says about 200 people were wounded, at least 30 seriously, when the police strafed demonstrators protesting the arrests of 160 Islamic extremists. Outside a nearby hospital, angry Palestinians screamed, "Arafat, traitor," and "Arafat, killer" as two police cars and a movie theater were set on fire. "All the accusations are pointed at Arafat, not the major or colonel...
Palestinian extremists' rancor towardYasser Arafat, who they blame for signing the Israel peace treaty, peaked today when members of the militant group Islamic Jihad unceremoniously threw the PLO chairman out of the Gaza mosque where he was attending the funeral of 35-year-old Hani Abed, an Islamic Jihad leader killed Wednesday in a car-bombing. The murder was the first major act of violence sincePalestinian self-rule began in May. The reception: Mourners knocked off the PLO leader's headdress, shouting "Arafat is a collaborator," and shoved him out a back door into the rain. Many Palestinians blame Israel...
...leaders of Hamas -- the militant Islamic group opposed to the Israeli-PLO accord and responsible forthree serious attacks on Israelislast month -- today said they wanted to open a dialogue with the Jewish state. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin immediately snubbed the first-ever offer, calling Hamas "the enemy of peace" and saying that the only way to deal with the group "is to wage a war of annihilation against it." The two leaders, both moderate clerics, said they were responding to a recent request for talks by Israeli Police Minister Moshe Shahal. TIME Jerusalem Bureau ChiefLisa Beyersays Israel sees...
Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan, also at the Casablanca conference, announced his country would relinquishcontrol of Muslim shrinesin east Jerusalem -- a privilege Israel had just granted Jordan in last month's peace treaty, infuriating Palestinians so much that PLO chairman Yasser Arafat boycotted the treaty signing. Now, Hassan said, Jordan would transfer authority once Israel reaches a full agreement over self-rule for the emerging Palestinian state -- which is expected to happen within months.Post comment onInternational
Rabin assured his people that the peace process would reduce terrorism, and it was on this premise that his government began negotiations with the PLO. Continued negotiations are contingent upon Arafat's ability to control terrorist elements within the self-rule areas...