TITLE

Letter from: Gaza

AUTHOR(S)
Usher, Graham
PUB. DATE
April 1995
SOURCE
New Statesman & Society;4/28/95, Vol. 8 Issue 350, p13
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's handling of Hamas and Islamic Jihad's opposition to the Palestinian Authority's (PA) peace agreement with Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin's warning to Arafat concerning Palestinian extremists' attacks against Israelis; Arafat's negotiation with Palestinian oppositionists; Possibility for and consequences of a Palestinian civil war.
ACCESSION #
9505233093

Tags: PALESTINE -- Politics & government;  ARAFAT, Yasir, 1929-2004;  ISRAEL -- Foreign relations

 

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