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said. "I'm not sure how the public
will react, though."
Said Kaplan: "I'm glad there is a
gesture of trust, even though Israel
didn't get as much."
Since the two met, they consider
each other very good friends.
Personal contact isn't always easy, but
they speak on the phone regularly.
The families got together for lunch
at Rishmawi's house near Bethlehem.
"My parents called and wanted to
meet his family," Kaplan explained.
They said the lunch went well,
with the parents discussing politics
and the teens mulling over the
Palestinian cuisine.
The pair also gets good and bad
reactions from friends. Each went to
the other's school for presentations
about the Seeds of Peace program.
"My friends told me not to make
friendships or trust Israelis,"
Rishmawi said. "I told them I have
very honest friends that I wouldn't
like to lose.
"My classmates met Israelis last
year, but I can't go to a friend who
hates the other side and tell them to
trust them. They have to experience
it.
The day ended with 15 local
Jewish and Arab teens meeting in
Southfield to see a presentation
about Seeds of Peace and to hear
from Kaplan and Rishmawi about
their friendship. The local teens said
they wanted to continue that kind of
interaction.
"I'd hope for a long-term thing,"
said 16-year-old Berkley High School
student Marissa Monkman, a mem-
ber of the Teen Mission 2 Israel
alumni group Come Back/Give
Back. "I want to be involved because
I get a different perspective on other
people's lives."
Christina Azrak, a member and
former officer of the Ramallah Youth
Group, sees great importance in a
continuing dialogue.
"Starting communication is
important because we need to work
on the youth to get past all the prob-
lems," the 18-year-old Wayne State
University freshman said. "The
importance is unbelievable."
Some of the activities the groups
discussed doing together included
bowling, sledding and skiing, with
one group saying a joint trip to Israel
is their end goal.
"We'll deal with the culture after
getting to know each other," said
Chris Ideh of the Ramallah Youth
group. ti]
The Wye Timetable
New York, JTA
ollowing is the timetable of
actions that Israel and the
Palestinian Authority agreed
to in the Wye River
Memorandum:
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Week 1 (Nov. 2-8)
• Accelerated final-status negotia-
tions begin.
• The Palestinian Authority shares
its "work plan" to combat terrorism
with American officials.
• The two sides resume full bilateral
security cooperation.
• A separate trilateral committee
that also includes U.S. officials begins
its work to "address the steps being
taken to combat terror."
• The two sides resume committee
work to resolve issues remaining from
the Interim Agreement. These include
the establishment of safe-passage
routes for Palestinians traveling
between the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, and opening a Gaza seaport.
A multiple-choice "first stage" exam on Nov. 22 will test your general
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Please complete the form and send to Judith Golub,
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Telephone and fax: (212) 578-1756.
email — israelscience@home.com
Weeks 6-12 (Dec. 7, 1998-Jan. 24,
1999)
• The third and final stage of the
13 percent Israeli redeployment is
completed. The first and second stages
take place in earlier weeks.
• Collection of illegal weapons in
the self-rule areas begin. Even after the
12-week period concludes, the Wye
accord calls for continued meetings of
all the bilateral and trilateral commit-
tees that oversee security, economic
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Weeks 2-6 (Nov. 9-Dec. 13)
• The Palestinian Authority begins
implementing its anti-terror "work
plan" and begins biweekly meetings at
which it will "inform the U.S. fully of
all the actions it has taken to outlaw
all organizations" that have a "military,
terrorist or violent character."
• The Palestine National Council
and other Palestine Liberation
Organization institutions convene to
publicly revoke the anti-Israel clauses
in the Palestinian Charter.
• A trilateral committee begins
meeting "to monitor cases of possible
incitement to violence or terror."
• The Palestinian Authority pre-
sents a list of its policemen to Israel.
The Wye accord does not make specif-
ic mention of how large the force
should be, but makes it "subject to the
relevant terms and conditions" of pre-
vious Israeli-Palestinian accords.
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