Roadmap and PeacemakingIsrael and Palestine
What starts the numerous peacemaking efforts? What brings them to a halt? Are they doomed to fail because the problem is intractable? Or are some peacemaking plans simply unrealistic? With one-sided conditions and expectations?
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Sharon Advised to Exit Nearly All of Gaza
Yahoo! News - Sharon Advised to Exit Nearly All of Gaza: "Mar 11, 2004 | By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s national security team has recommended that Israel withdraw from virtually all of the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) and up to 24 West Bank settlements, a government official said Thursday.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) said earlier he would welcome a Gaza withdrawal, but he insisted it would have to be accompanied by a simultaneous pullback from the West Bank.
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Meanwhile, Israel's Supreme Court extended a freeze on construction of a 15-mile section of the country's contentious West Bank separation barrier until Wednesday.
The court initially suspended construction in the area, around eight Palestinian villages northwest of Jerusalem, on Feb. 29 at the request of a civil rights group representing Israeli and Palestinian opponents of the barrier. ..
Yahoo! News - Sharon Advised to Exit Nearly All of Gaza: "Mar 11, 2004 | By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s national security team has recommended that Israel withdraw from virtually all of the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) and up to 24 West Bank settlements, a government official said Thursday.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) said earlier he would welcome a Gaza withdrawal, but he insisted it would have to be accompanied by a simultaneous pullback from the West Bank.
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Meanwhile, Israel's Supreme Court extended a freeze on construction of a 15-mile section of the country's contentious West Bank separation barrier until Wednesday.
The court initially suspended construction in the area, around eight Palestinian villages northwest of Jerusalem, on Feb. 29 at the request of a civil rights group representing Israeli and Palestinian opponents of the barrier. ..
