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To Withdraw Without Withdrawing
Two striking aspects of Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation stand out in the long-expected agreement on implementing the next stage of Israel's redeployment in the West Bank: Not only is Israel's "belligerent" occupation of the West Bank about to end, but what Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin calls the "hallucination" of a Greater Israel, fostered by a generation of Labor and Likud politicians, is also being repudiated. . . .  Read more

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From the Israeli Press
Danny Rubinstein, "Creeping Annexation Continues"
Ha'aretz, May 29, 1995 Read more

Construction Escalates
An update on construction in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank.
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Settlement Pace Picks Up
During the first quarter of 1995, construction starts in Israel and the occupied territories were recorded at a pace not seen since the building boom of 1991. The increase has occurred exclusively in the realm of publicly financed construction. Read more

Principles Guiding an Interim Agreement Signed
[The following is the text of the agreement reached during the August talks between the Palestinian and Israeli delegations.] Read more

Impasse In The West Bank
Israel's military redeployment is hard to discuss seriously while negotiations on the settlers' future remain censored Read more

Back Panel Quote
Secretary of State Warren Christopher Read more