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| Yasser sez church gunnies can negotiate |
| 2002-04-22 |
| Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat gave his approval Monday for Palestinians to negotiate with Israel and a third party to end the weeks-long standoff at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. The decision marks a departure from the Palestinian position that negotiations leading to a possible cease-fire could not proceed so long as Israelis continued their reoccupation of Palestinian territories. Canon Andrew White, the special representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury, said Arafat met with Assistant U.S. Secretary of State William Burns, where he gave "his sanction" to the negotiations. A third party to the negotiations has not been chosen, he said. Since they're out of groceries, they're going to be out soon anyway, so Yasser wants to see how many concessions he can wring for something that's inevitable. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |