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HEBRON, West Bank: The stabbing of an Israeli settler by a Palestinian in Hebron on Wednesday added fuel to an already raging inferno of debate over Israel's agreement to pull out its troops from the city. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres is under increasing pressure from religious and right-wing parties to delay the troop withdrawal until after elections May 29. The parties hope the right- wing Likud party will win the election and back out of the pullout agreement with Palestinians. "Hebron is a tinderbox," Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says. "It is a tense place even under...
Rabin was shot to death by a Jewish settler on Saturday shortly after addressing a mass peace rally attended by 100,000 people in The King's Square in Tel Aviv. ``"For 27 years, I was a military man. I fought all the time. There was no chance for peace. I believe that now there is a chance for peace and we must take advantage of it," Rabin said, as the huge crowd applauded. "I have always believed that most of the people want peace and are ready to take a risk for it." As Rabin walked toward...
...Israeli settler trying to take down a Palestinian flag in an Arab elementary school set off a violent clash today between Palestinians and Israelis in Hebron. "This is a scary and mean situation right now," reports Sam 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...
ForIsraeli and PLOofficials, keeping the emerging West Bank accord on track after a terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv last week may have been the easy part. Now, they must convince Jewish settlers -- many of whom have occupied a local hilltop in protest -- to leave the territory. Today, in the biggest clash so far between authorities and West Bank settlers, hundreds of Israeli police and soldiers climbed the Dagan Hill and dragged them down by the dozens, only to watch them run back up. After several hours, hot and weary police and soldiers carried the settlers down again. (At least...
...Afrikaner culture and symbols. "Lots of little things were done," MacLeod says. "They stopped using the old national anthem so there would be no national anthem, and at the Olympic games in 1992, they used a 'peace' flag, not the South African flag. And the old paper currency had settler heroes' pictures. Now they have elephants."parpar