JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: PROMINENT ISRAELI LEFTISTS MEET PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS AT A MILITARY CHECKPOINT IN SUPPORT OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Record ID: 400329

  • Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: PROMINENT ISRAELI LEFTISTS MEET PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS AT A MILITARY CHECKPOINT IN SUPPORT OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
  • Date: 10th December 2001
  • Summary: (W4) JERUSALEM (DECEMBER 10, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON MEETING ECONOMIC ADVISORS (4 SHOTS) 0.25 (W4) QALANDIA CHECKPOINT, NEAR RAMALLAH (DECEMBER 10, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 2. MV DOVISH ISRAELI LEADERS ARRIVING AT QALANDIA CHECKPOINT NEAR WEST BANK CITY OF RAMALLAH 0.31 3.
  • Embargoed: 25th December 2001 12:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM/ QALANDIA CHECKPOINT NEAR RAMALLAH
  • City:
  • Country: West Bank West Bank Jerusalem Jerusalem MIDDLE EAST
  • Reuters ID: LVA5N9M92LITXQ3746DJMNM64C8E
  • Story Text: Days after Ariel Sharon's government branded the
    Palestinian Authority an entity supporting terror, prominent
    Israeli leftists have met Palestinian officials at a military
    checkpoint in the West Bank in a gesture of reconciliation.



    Despite the show of solidarity by Israeli dove Yossi
    Beilin, Palestinian Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo and Palestinian
    legislator Hanan Ashrawi, tit-for-tat violence continued and
    new U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni appeared to be losing patience in
    his quest for a ceasefire.

    Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo told
    the Qalandia meeting any barriers betwen the two sides were
    artificial while leftist Israeli leader Yossi Beilin urged the
    crowd not to give up on peace.

    Since Zinni's arrival, there have been a number of suicide
    bombings by Palestinians inside Israel and Israeli aircraft
    have pounded Palestinian security installations from the air.

    After last week's lethal bombings in Jerusalem and Haifa,
    Sharon's cabinet said last week that Yasser Arafat's
    Palestinian Authority was an entity supporting terror.


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