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JERUSALEM: Getting Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu to agree on Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank may prove easier than convincing the Israeli Parliament to approve the accord. A bitterly divided Israeli Cabinet, torn by accusations by hard-liners that Netanyahu had given away everything and got nothing in return, finally agreed to withdraw troops from the West Bank, clearing the way for a Parliamentary debate Thursday. Debate in the Israeli Cabinet was intense, described by one Israeli official as "vociferous" and held amidst "tremendous tension." Early in the day, the entire session abruptly ended after Cabinet ministers received...
JERUSALEM: Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu met at midnight Monday in an attempt to complete an elusive deal on Israeli troop deployments in Hebron. Arafat is willing to allow Israel 11 extra months (until August of 1998) to withdraw troops from rural areas of the West Bank which, under the autonomy agreement, was to be done by this coming September. TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer reports that the agreement itself is not a major commitment for Netanyahu. "It is a hard step for him, a big step, but Netanyahu said during the campaign he intended to honor the Oslo...
JERUSALEM: Yasser Arafat angrily rejected an Israeli compromise proposal to complete its troop withdrawal from the West Bank in May 1998, a year earlier than Netanyahu has previously offered. For Arafat, it remains a year too late. U.S. envoy Dennis Ross presented the proposal to the Palestinian leader in what an Arafat aide described as an "extremely tense" six-hour meeting that lasted until early today. "The talks have hit a serious crisis," Arafat spokesman Nabil Abourdeneh told Voice of Palestine radio. "The Israelis are threatening the peace process by making such proposals." The terms for the Israeli removal from...
JERUSALEM: Undaunted by Sunday's fruitless pre-dawn meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, U.S. Middle Eastern envoy Dennis Ross spent Monday prodding the two leaders to meet again to resolve the impasse over a Hebron deal. According to an agreement signed in 1995, Israel was supposed to pull troops out of Hebron, the last occupied town in the West Bank, by March 1996. But Netanyahu has delayed the troop removal, saying the 500 Jewish settlers living in Hebron still need protection from Palestinians. While Israel says it remains committed to an eventual...
JERUSALEM: Internal political considerations prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from beginning the New Year with an agreement in place on Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron. Netanyahu was forced to postpone his New Year?s Eve summit with Arafat in order to guide his 1997 budget through the Israeli Knesset as crucial close votes coincided with the peace talks. U.S. mediator Dennis Ross said that while the two sides were very close on the Hebron agreement, ?We are not there yet.? While peace is vital to Israel, Netanyahu confronted a domestic challenge that kept...