21.   Three years earlier, Arafat had decided that the only way to regain Arab land was through violence.

22.   What appears more likely is a creeping price rise as oil companies and Arab lands jockey for the financial resources with which to develop new oil fields.

23.   When I ask if that means the closing down of all Jewish settlements on occupied Arab land and the return of East Jerusalem, her voice sharpens.

24.   While the sheik has denied ordering terrorist actions, he defends the Islamic resistance by charging that violence is the only answer to Israeli occupation of Arab land.

25.   Wide swaths of Arab land were confiscated by the army throughout the West Bank for protective barriers and fences.

26.   With these neighborhoods, and the highways that connect them, come confiscations of long-time Arab lands.

27.   Yet another issue involves Arab lands that are currently in closed Israeli military areas.

28.   Others say that after sanctions made life difficult for everyone they feel unwelcome in a country that once was host to millions of workers from other Arab lands.

29.   Palestinian officials said Saturday there was no point in holding talks with Israel or considering U.S. peace initiatives until Israel stopped building settlements on Arab land.

30.   Palestinians demanded that Ross extract a promise from Netanyahu that Israel would halt the building of Jewish settlements on Arab land.