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...opening a safe passage route between the West Bank and Gaza, rather than withdrawing from much of the 55 percent of the West Bank still in Israeli hands. So the important question may become whether Yasser Arafat is prepared to settle for stability instead of the vision of Palestinian statehood around which he'd rallied the Palestinians and the wider Arab world over the past six months. And the rocket attack on the car of one of his bodyguards may also be intended as a warning to the Palestinian leader of the consequences of continuing the uprising...
...Slapped new license plates on the presidential limo that support statehood for the District of Columbia, which Bush opposes. This Executive Order at least can be undone with a screwdriver
...possibility of Barak's imminent departure and the approach of the Bush administration may be used by Israeli and U.S. officials this week to present the current round of talks as Yasser Arafat's last chance to achieve a deal over Palestinian statehood. But it's unlikely that the Israelis will be able to offer much more than they did at Camp David - and the political pressure against Arafat's accepting even that offer is considerably greater now that Palestinians have been burying about 25 of their young people a week since the end of September in what they...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's strategy of imposing a "unilateral separation" on the Palestinians if Yasser Arafat declares statehood [WORLD, Nov. 6] reminds me of South Africa's semantic maneuvering to replace the word apartheid with words like "separate development." Of course, the Middle East and South African situations are totally different. But Barak and Arafat can follow Nelson Mandela's and F.W. de Klerk's example and not only talk but also work together and walk the whole mile of transformation to democracy without outside mediators. JAN MAARSCHALK Florida Hills, South Africa...
...British forces occupying Germany at the time of Chamberlain's negotiations? Was Hitler the leader of fighters armed primarily with rocks, bottles and handguns? The two situations are not parallel in the least. The Palestinians are frustrated with the ongoing occupation. They have been given only symbolic aspects of statehood. JEFFREY DAVIS Durham...