Part of the price for the agreement…

Part of the price for the agreement on Hebron becomes clear when Netanyahu, under right-wing pressure from within his government coalition, announces the beginning of construction of a long-planned but often delayed Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa (known as Jabal Abu Ghneim to Palestinians) on land claimed by the Palestinians on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

This will effectively cut off the Arab villages on the eastern side of the city from the rest of the West Bank.

Yasser Arafat holds his protest of this project until the cabinet's decision on the first of three projected Israeli withdrawals on March 7.

When these withdrawals turn out to be far less significant than Arafat had anticipated, the stage is set for another round of protests that quickly escalates into violence.