1.   But Turkey is uneasy about having a Kurdish autonomous zone on its border.

2.   China has promised to treat Hong Kong as a special autonomous zone, preserving most of its old freedoms and all of its old capitalism.

3.   For sure, Naama is an anomaly, an enclave that lies outside the autonomous Jericho zone but is surrounded by it on three sides.

4.   Israel defended its operation as an act of self-defense, but Palestinians denounced it as a step toward re-occupying territory that forms their autonomous zones.

5.   Tensions snapped as Israeli soldiers fired at stone-throwing protesters across the checkpoints that divide Israel from autonomous Palestinian zones.

6.   The accord envisioned, even demanded, a representative democracy in the Palestinian autonomous zone, not a police state.

7.   The U.S. and allies continue to protect an autonomous zone in northern Iraq, but incidents of terrorism against the Kurds have continued.

8.   Their autonomous zones are not contiguous and they find themselves faced with Israeli checkpoints on all sides.

9.   Options under discussion range from retaking autonomous Palestinian zones, to erecting a physical barrier between the Palestinians and Israel, to targeting higher levels of Palestinian leadership.

10.   Also frozen were plans to permit freer Palestinian travel between the autonomous zones of the Gaza Strip and West Bank town of Jericho, Ben-Ami said.