VOL. XXXVI

NO. 23

8 MARCH 1993

The Political Scene

Israel's attempted deportation of 400 alleged Hamas activists continues todog the Americans' campaign to reconvene the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations andto raise the stakes in the occupied Gaza Strip. In what may be a further (andpossibly related) placatory gesture in Israel's direction, the US has formallyannounced that it is ending all contacts with Hamas.

Deportees Still the Issue

It cannot be said that there has been an unseemlyscramble in the...