11.  Indeed, opinion polls suggest widespread public acceptance of the withdrawal of Israeli troops from major Arab cities.

12.  Militant Jewish settlers have called on Israeli troops to disobey orders to withdraw from Arab cities.

13.  Muslims in the largely Arab city demand that a large mosque be built close to the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Annunciation.

14.  The destruction of the Yehuda Avazi restaurant has a parallel in Nazareth, an Arab city inside Israel.

15.  The next phase of self-rule is to include the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Arab cities and towns in the West Bank.

16.  The talk is equally belligerent from the well-armed Jewish settlers, who assert their claim to an Arab city they believe is divinely Jewish.

17.  Those steps include redeploying Israel forces now occupying Arab cities and towns and determining the arrangements for Palestinian elections.

18.  Under their emerging agreement, Israeli troops would withdraw from several Arab cities and towns in the West Bank this fall, after which Palestinian elections would be held.

19.  We have no interest in occupying Arab cities and towns.

20.  Withdrawal from five more Arab cities in the West Bank is to be completed before the end of the year.