VOL XL

No. 03

20 January 1997

The Political Scene

The peace process appears to have emerged from its latest - butsurely not its last - crisis with the signature of the agreement on Israel's redeploymenton Hebron, followed swiftly by the redeployment itself on 17 January. In fact theagreement goes well beyond the issue of Hebron and provides a road map for theimplementation of the rest of the interim agreement (although differences have alreadysurfaced on further Israeli redeployments). As...