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Israel Eases Conditions for Palestinians
(Jerusalem Post) Margot Dudkevitch and Arieh O'Sullivan - In Hebron, where restrictions have already been lifted, public transportation runs between the city and Bethlehem, there is unrestricted access to and from the city, hundreds of truckloads of goods transfer their provisions, and laborers are permitted to enter Israel to work, said a senior IDF officer. "Today things there are different," he said. "While there are pockets of terror, we are able to control the situation, and therefore the local population benefits. Those living in Jenin can see what happens when there is no terror - that is the carrot, the light at the end of the tunnel. Hebron residents realize that if they allow the terror to resume, the situation there will change." The most problematic areas in the West Bank remain Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarm, he said. "One of our problems is bringing about a change in the Palestinian leadership....Ahmed Qurei is a straw man, Arafat's mask," he added.