1.   Arafat also wants Israel to pull back its forces and allow travel between Palestinian land and Israel proper.

2.   At some point it may dawn on Israelis that continued seizures of Palestinian land and other arbitrary acts are incompatible with mutual respect and reconciliation.

3.   At the same time, Israeli soldiers spread throughout the West Bank enforcing a new policy to take back Palestinian land in reprisal for suicide bombings.

4.   But now Clinton is contemplating another stop in Palestinian lands, at Bethlehem, further upsetting the Israelis.

5.   But others, including some Israelis, see the continuing occupation of Palestinian lands as the defining difference.

6.   But we are not out to destroy this extremist menace so that Israel will be free to build more settlements or to eat up more Palestinian land.

7.   Earlier this year, three Palestinian land dealers were slain, and the Palestinian Legislative Council is preparing a law that would bar selling Palestinian land to any outsider.

8.   Even now it confiscates Palestinian land and water.

9.   Even on normal days, tension is high around the settlements, where Jewish families have built homes on what had been Palestinian land and are expanding rapidly.

10.   Expansion of settlements and the grabbing of Palestinian land continues, along with the systematic destruction of Palestinian homes for alleged violations of Israeli housing laws.