31.   But diplomats say the men were part of a tide of fundamentalist activists seeking to establish Islamic states.

32.   But he dismissed suggestions that Israel might consider restitution to Palestinians for property they lost when the state of Israel was established.

33.   By this date, Israel and the Palestinians are to have completed an agreement on the permanent status of the areas where the Palestinians hope to establish a state.

34.   By then, Israel and the Palestinians are to have completed an agreement on the permanent status of the areas where the Palestinians hope to establish a state.

35.   Ethiopian forces exchanged fire with a Somali faction fighting to establish a state in Somali-populated eastern Ethiopia, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

36.   For the Palestinians settlements are the key obstacle to establishing a state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

37.   He did not say when such a state would be established.

38.   He hopes to establish a state on the West Bank and in Gaza with its capital in Jerusalem.

39.   If implemented, the plan would leave the Palestinians with disconnected patches of land that would make it very difficult to establish a state.

40.   In a related development, Peres dismissed reports which said Israel had proposed the Palestinians establish a state in Gaza in exchange for dropping claims to the West Bank.