M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S - "NOT MUCH TO CELEBRATE"...NBC News
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"The only thing missing from this watershed in the 'peace process' is any sense of peace.
"With the withdrawal of the Israeli army, the Jewish enclave here is now an armed ghetto surrounded by a hostile population. The ticking time-bomb that is Hebron has been dealt with in an agreement -- it has not been defused.
"We hope for freedom, for genuine freedom, and we're not going to get that from this agreement" (Hebron resident)
"And there were minor explosions all day. Palestinians and settlers taunted each other... Rocks were thrown... Soldiers took up firing positions... Arrests sere made.
"And the new era began to look mysteriously like the old one."
CBS Evening News - 18 January 1997
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