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...went as planned, Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin were to meet this week in Cairo to settle two contentious issues -- one substantive, the size of the self-rule enclave around Jericho; and one symbolic, whether a Palestinian guard will be posted on the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan to the West Bank -- that negotiators set aside for top- level deliberation. The day after the meeting, May 4, they were scheduled to sign an accord laying out the terms by which the P.L.O. will take charge of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank area around Jericho, at long...
According to Israeli officials, the breakthrough in the sclerotic talks came two weeks ago, when Arafat and Peres consulted over 48 hours in Bucharest. Rabin had told his Foreign Minister that it was time to trade some of the symbolic measures sought by the P.L.O. for the security concessions Israel deemed more important. Arafat accepted the idea, paving the way for an acceleration of the subsequent talks, which were given a strong push by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and U.S. Secretary of State Warren - Christopher, who came to the region last week to help bring the negotiations to a close...
...Rabin Says Golan Negotiable
...months since Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, political violence in the occupied territories and Israel has claimed the lives of 150 Palestinians and 34 Israelis. Says Yechiel Leiter, spokesman for the Yesha Council, the main lobby group for Israeli settlers in the occupied territories: "This is not going in the direction of peace. Peace is less violence, not more." That is perhaps the only point on which settlers and Palestinians agree. Short of a miracle, the April 13 deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Jericho and the Gaza Strip and commencement of limited Palestinian self...
...Rabin has championed this acceleration-most persuasively after the recent spate of terrorist acts that aimed to stop the peace process. This acceleration will allow for the requisite conditions for an irreversible peace to be put in place, unable to be derailed by terrorism. Only by small, sure, increments can a peace be reached between two enemies that have little history of humane, let alone good, relations...