ABSTRACT
The signing of the 15 January 1997 Hebron Protocol providing for Israel’s evacuation of some 80 per cent of the City of the Patriarchs, and for the full implementation of the (Oslo) Interim Agreement, including the completion of Israel’s military redeployment in (that is, withdrawal from) the West Bank by mid-1988 seems to have removed, temporarily at least, the dark cloud hanging over the future of the nascent Arab-Israeli peace process since the election of Likud’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister of Israel in May 1996.
