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...business. TV images of Bethlehem schoolgirls suffering the effects of an errant tear-gas cannister certainly didn't help. And then the Vatican complained that pilgrims couldn't visit Jesus' birthplace. So although Israel maintains that the bombers are still inside and that protests were motivated by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, they have decided to cut their losses and skip town...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: That was quite an opener, but what will he do for an encore? On the first day of a two-day conference here, Yasser Arafat hugged and kissed Islamic militants ? including Hamas, the organization blamed for the recent double-suicide bombing ? and warned Israel a new revolt could be on the horizon...
JERUSALEM: Why is Yasser Arafat extending an olive branch to Islamic militants by meeting them today and tomorrow, while Israel continues to demand a crackdown for a July suicide bombing...
...Whispering sweet words of "political pluralism," Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will meet Wednesday with representatives of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to sound out their feelings on the peace process. Dealing with the devil, shrieks the Israeli government. Public relations stunt, clamor Palestinian militants. Watch for the belabored Arafat to be stretched like a rubber band on this...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Four days of Middle East shuttling by special envoy Dennis Ross has left Yasser Arafat emptyhanded - and spitting mad. All Ross was able to extract from Netanyahu was today's lifting of another travel ban. Says TIME's State Department correspondent Dean Fischer: "It's not much of a concession...