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...disputes that more Arabs have died than Israelis in this recent conflict. The disagreement, however, is who is responsible for these deaths. HSI urges Americans to stand in solidarity with Israel because we believe that while Israel has made unprecedented efforts to create peace with its Arab neighbors, Chairman Yasser Arafat and his supporters have now responded with rhetoric and violence. In this situation, Israel has had no choice but to defend itself from these violent attacks. We too mourn the fact that youths have died in this bloody battle, but as the highly-respected Rep. Barney Frank '61 asserted...
...greet the new chaos with resignation, others with a fervent, steely passion to win what they feel their people deserve. All the entries are tinged with sadness. The week began with a hurried summit in Egypt, at which President Clinton squeezed an oral cease-fire plan from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. On Friday, wild fighting in many of the disputed areas left nine Palestinians dead and at least 80 wounded on both sides. The sadness, it seems, may be with us a while longer...
SAEB ERAKAT IS YASSER ARAFAT'S CHIEF NEGOTIATOR AND MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. HE LIVES IN JERICHO...
...armed with stones and gasoline bombs confront the guns of the occupying army, and the body count mounts almost daily. The fact that there are a lot more guns on the Palestinian side this time around makes the conflict likely to be more protracted and even bloodier. And Yasser Arafat finds himself its prisoner. He needed this uprising to prove to the Israelis and Americans that the deal being offered on Jerusalem simply wouldn't fly, but it's quickly evolved into something way beyond negotiating leverage. Arafat over the weekend called for an intensification of the intifada, even though...
...succeeding in the first place. Maybe the Israelis and the Palestinians just weren't ready for peace yet; their hard-liners still had too much hate and killing left in them. Even then, it's clear now that President Clinton's game plan for getting Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat to sign a final peace treaty contained serious flaws...