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Last year, Arafat cracked down on Hamas after a string of bombings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, arresting more than 1,200 suspected terrorists, destroying Hamas safe houses, and confiscating its weapons caches.
And although these papers and the LAT all communicate the same basic facts about yesterday's events--that Arafat responded to Albright's demands by promising full cooperation in the fight against anti-Israeli terrorism and that Netanyahu was very cool toward her entreaties to him to cease land confiscations, home demolitions, settlement building, confiscation of IDs and the embargoing of tax revenues belonging to the Palestinian authority--their headlines differ in what they emphasize.
In an editorial titled "Israeli Neorealism," it said that the hand-over of the little West Bank town of Kasbatieh last Friday shows that "very slowly, in distrust, recrimination, and mutual regret, by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and also by Yasser Arafat, the Israelis and the Palestinians are progressing toward peace."
The paper said Arafat's unexpected alliance with the Christians was part of his strategy to win Christian support in future negotiations with Israel over Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem Post , by contrast, accused Arafat of having turned this "well intended gesture sour."