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...Palestinians are demanding the disarmament and dismantling of the Jewish settlements before they return to the negotiations. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, no lover of the settlements, is under deeply conflicting political pressures about how to respond, and many feel he has failed to do enough. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat will be damned by his own people if he does resume talks, and damned by history if he does not. When Dr. Baruch Goldstein walked into the Hebron shrine and opened fire on rows of kneeling worshippers, his intention was not just to kill Arabs but also to destroy...
...that followed throughout the occupied territories and in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin vowed that the incident would not derail the peace process. Insisting that the rampage was the work of a lone "lunatic" -- though some victims say more than one gunman was involved -- Rabin phoned P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat with an apology: "I am ashamed as an Israeli that such a horrible incident took place here." Arafat called for disarming Israel's West Bank settlers...
...attack by Palestinians on a uniformed Israeli and opened fire. Nabil Shaath, the Palestine Liberation Organization's chief peace negotiator, claimed that eight worshippers were killed at the mosque entrance by Israeli soldiers. Even if true, these contentions would not necessarily point to the conspiracy that P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat alleged; the few soldiers on the scene could simply have panicked as hundreds of frantic and bleeding Palestinians fled the carnage...
According to the original plan, by now Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat should be ensconced in new headquarters in the West Bank, overseeing Palestinian self-rule in Jericho and the Gaza Strip. The Israeli occupation authorities should be leaving those enclaves as the two sides prepare for an expansion of Arafat's authority into the whole of the West Bank by summertime. Instead, Arafat remains in exile, occupiers continue to control every aspect of Palestinian life, and the Israelis say it could take the rest of the year to implement autonomy in just these two areas. No wonder Palestinian...
Asked about the issues of peace and trust, Peres mentioned a meeting between himself and Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization...