ARABS-ISRAEL - March 22 - Gunbattle As Mitchell Rejects Sharon Line.With Pres. Bush giving Arafat the cold shoulder (see Arab-US Relations) and PM Sharon back from the US going straight into talks with security chiefs at Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest airport, 6 people are wounded in several hours of shooting at the Khan khan Historically, the ruler or monarch of a Mongol tribe. Early on a distinction was made between the title of khan and that of khakan, or “great khan.” Later the term khan was adopted by the Seljuq and Khwarezm-Shah dynasties as a title for the highest Younis refugee refugee, one who leaves one's native land either because of expulsion or to escape persecution. The legal problem of accepting refugees is discussed under asylum; this article considers only mass dislocations and the organizations that help refugees. camp in southern Gaza. Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli Army bulldozer that was clearing land on the edge of the camp. An Israeli spokesman said the bulldozer was doing work on a defence post next to a nearby Jewish settlement. The fighting erupted one day after a fact-finding committee led by former Senator George Mitchell George Mitchell may refer to:
tr.v. ap·por·tioned, ap·por·tion·ing, ap·por·tions To divide and assign according to a plan; allot: "The tendency persists to apportion blame as suits the circumstances" blame. Mitchell told a press conference in Ramallah: "We have not made any decision". He rejected the Sharon line that the committee blamed the PA for the violence. Sharon said at the Tel Aviv airport his discussions with Bush touched on the "danger of terror" from "Afghanistan to Lebanon", adding: "We agreed that terror is the most dangerous thing for regional stability. One thing, I think, was very clear - that Israel is not going to be the one to pay for that stability". Earlier, on Israeli Army radio, he said: "There is complete American agreement and understanding that we cannot surrender to violence and terrorism. There will be no peace negotiations under threats of terrorism and violence". In Cairo, the Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Zvi Mazel Zvi Mazel (b. March 4, 1939) is an Israeli diplomat. He was the Israeli ambassador to Sweden. He had previously served at the Israeli embassies in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Paris, and Cairo. said he delivered a verbal message to Egypt's Assistant Foreign Minister Mohammed Orabi: "We asked Egypt to intervene intervene v. to obtain the court's permission to enter into a lawsuit which has already started between other parties and to file a complaint stating the basis for a claim in the existing lawsuit. with Chairman Arafat to stop the violence from the Palestinians in the areas". Mazel said he also asked Egypt (the first Arab country to make peace with the Jewish state) to support a moderate line at the March 27 Arab summit in Amman. (At an Arab summit meeting in Cairo last October, Egypt resisted pressure from hardline Arab states to back a call to break all relations with Israel in support of the uprising. But in Nov., Egypt recalled its ambassador to Israel, asserting that Israel was using excessive force against Palestinians). |
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