Arabs angered at deportation plan
Yasser Arafat’s agreement to allow the deportation of 13 suspected militants holed up in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity has angered many Arabs who see it as an ideological betrayal of the Palestinians’ long struggle for independence.
Although Israel has deported hundreds of Palestinians - including men who are now top Arafat aides - since capturing the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Mideast war, this was the first time Palestinian authorities have agreed to such a thing.
