Word: ramallah
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...Palestinian statehood. Prime Minister Sharon is expected in Washington for consultations on Sunday. But the fine points of various contending peace plans and ideas on reforming the PA may now be overshadowed, once again, by the security crisis in Israel and the West Bank and a new siege of Ramallah. So instead of the diplomatic and security progress Washington had hoped for, the White House finds itself confronting d?j? vu. Israelis are being terrorized by suicide bombers, Palestinian towns are occupied by Israeli armor, and Yasser Arafat is under siege in Ramallah. President Bush had been expected to outline...
...Authority, and its broader strategy. Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has been in a Palestinian prison in Jericho since April. He was imprisoned under U.S. and British supervision as part of the U.S.-brokered agreement to end Israel's siege of Arafat's Ramallah compound. Israel accuses Saadat of masterminding the assassination of right-wing Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi last year, but the PA court ordered his release on the grounds that no evidence had been presented against Saadat, and no legal proceedings conducted. Arafat had arrested Saadat not for legal reasons...
...Arafat's popularity has plummeted since the end of the siege of Ramallah, in no small part because of the perception that he negotiated his own freedom at the expense of men like Saadat, even as the circumstances of ordinary Palestinians continue to deteriorate under Israeli blockade. Forcing him to overrule his own judiciary won't help with the home constituency, and yet holding Saadat in prison won't necessarily help Arafat achieve the resumption of political negotiations he desperately needs. That's because Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has made abundantly clear to U.S. emissaries this week that...
...Matt Rees/ Ramallah, with Jamil Hamad/ Bethlehem and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
...Area A has ceased to exist. Israel now conducts daily operations inside the towns that Oslo placed under PA control, and is, as far as the lives of ordinary Palestinians are concerned, the only relevant authority. It is the Israeli military that determines whether Palestinians living in Bethlehem or Ramallah get to walk their streets or are forced to remain inside under curfew; it is the Israeli military that determines whether Palestinians get to leave one Palestinian city for another; and it is the Israeli military that decides even whether the PA's security personnel are allowed onto their...