The Times (Trenton, NJ) · 26 October 1998

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Jewish settlers protest accord, rip Netanyahu

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OFRA, West Bank (AP) — Jewish settlers demonstrated across the West Bank yesterday, vowing to scuttle a new Mideast peace deal that gives more land to Palestinians. The protests came hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to Israel, hoping to convince hard-liners that the deal he made with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was the best possible.

Arriving back in Israel to a red-carpet welcome, the Israeli leader said security concessions won from the Palestinians during the nine-day summit outside Washington would justify ceding more West Bank land. “We are returning after a long and difficult effort to bring ... security and peace to Israel,” he said.

“We achieved such a deal — we achieved the best deal ... We did something good for the state of Israel.”

At least 20 settlers — once Netanyahu’s staunchest supporters — were arrested and two police officers were hurt in yesterday’s widespread demonstrations, including one outside Israel’s international airport after Netanyahu’s arrival.

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This scan is a complete newspaper page carrying TWO complete articles side by side, with a photograph between them, and the archive holds a record for each. This record transcribes the left-hand story, “Jewish settlers protest accord, rip Netanyahu”, to which the photograph belongs. The right-hand story on the same page, “Palestinian teen dead as accord sparks infighting”, in which 16-year-old Wassim Tarifi is shot dead in Ramallah, is a separate record, o981026tarifi. Both records show the whole page as it was printed rather than a crop of half of it, so the archive’s claim that every record is a photograph of the page its story ran on stays true; the cost is that the same photograph appears twice under two ids.

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