Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: Are you prepared to acknowledge that opening the tunnel exit was not wise...
Netanyahu for his part had readily agreed to the summit--but not to concessions. He made it clear to reporters on his plane on the way over that he assumed Clinton would press hard for concessions. Presumably those would start with closing the archaeological tunnel that had touched off the violence and follow with a firm date for redeploying Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, a step already six months overdue. He was more than ready to resist...
TIME: At the time of the violence, you said Arafat "cynically" manipulated the tunnel issue? Has your perception changed...
...fighting raged in the streets of the West Bank and Gaza late last month, Israel's opening of the now infamous Jerusalem tunnel was denounced from Turtle Bay to Timbuktu as a desecration of the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem. It took nearly a week and fully 70 dead before the truth began to trickle out: the charge...
...have some cards he can play. "It is conceivable that Clinton could make it clear that without some concessions there will be a lack of private sector investment that could be extremely painful economically for both Israel and the Palestinians," Simons notes. "Without money, all the issues like the tunnel are purely symbolic and can be thrown out the window. Improving the economic situation of the Palestinians is where the solution lies." -->