1.   The two sides yesterday took dramatic strides towards ending a century of hatred as the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Jewish state negotiated recognition of each other.

2.   The Jewish state also offered assurances that deporting Palestinians was not national policy.

3.   American Jews used to identify with Israel as a plucky, isolated Jewish state, and with the plight of Soviet Jewry.

4.   American recognition of the new Jewish state, Marshall contended, would infuriate the Arabs with whom the United States had established amicable relations.

5.   And much of Middle Eastern terrorism is tied up in the dispute, or dedicated to the elimination of a Jewish state in the region.

6.   And so Israeli politicians are turning to immigration, the force that built the Jewish state a half century ago, but that is showing signs of weakening.

7.   Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo and pushed for severing political contacts with the Jewish state.

8.   Arafat, commenting on other Israeli measures, called on leaders attending the Group of Eight meeting in Genoa, Italy, to censure the Jewish state.

9.   As a Jewish state, Israel still openly struggles to balance its secular democracy with its religious foundation.

10.   As Rabin explained in a television interview shortly after the White House ceremony, it represented a rededication to the concept of a Jewish state.