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...Beit Lid, and its larger cousin, the Gaza-based Hamas. Washington had no illusion that this would matter much; the work of the militants does not cost a lot, and Iran, their chief bankroller, is happy to make up the shortfall. Still, the move was important symbolically to Rabin and Arafat alike...
...Israeli government officials are taking up the political refrain of ``separation.'' For months Rabin has pushed the idea that Israel and the Palestinians should live side by side but isolated from each other, and now he is trying to devise a way to do it. Some Cabinet members spoke of erecting a physical fence to keep Palestinians out of the country. It is an unwieldy and simplistic idea: any effort to decide on the positioning of such a structure would inevitably be seen as an attempt to determine the final border between Israel and the Palestinian entity that is supposed...
Until there is a final settlement, Rabin's separation concept is decidedly one-sided. Though Israeli employers are loath to do without cheap Arab labor, the government wants to keep Palestinians out of Israel. Yet it wants to maintain Israeli settlers and--to protect them--Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and even in the Gaza Strip. That is unacceptable to Palestinian negotiators. Closing off Israel to Arab workers also deprives the Palestinians of $1 million in daily earnings. If international aid would stimulate the Palestinian economy enough to replace jobs lost in Israel, the principle of separation would become...
...most obvious way out of the conundrum is to skip over the contradictions of the interim phase and move directly to negotiations on a final settlement, which are supposed to begin in little more than a year. That idea is under consideration by Rabin's government. Israel would seek to inflate its borders to include many of the settlements and would probably offer the Palestinians full statehood in the remnants. Sa'eb Erakat, Arafat's minister of local government, says the Palestinians are ready to move straight to a final resolution. The P.L.O. will insist on nothing less than...
...wounded 64 others, sending waves of shock and fury through the country and threatening to derail the fragile peace process once and for all. Even the normally dovish Israeli President Ezer Weizman joined in the outrage, declaring that peace talks with the p.l.o. should be suspended. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin held firm, however, saying ``There is no alternative.'' Some Cabinet members talked of erecting a fence, policed by border guards and dogs, that would keep West Bank Palestinians from entering Israel. A Pilgrimage to Auschwitz Jews from all over the world journeyed to Poland to attend a ceremony marking...