r our culture on them. But beyond the idea of a state, he seemed to offer little room for compromise or negotiation. He referred repeatedly to the West Rank, the ter- ritory presumed to com- prise the bulk of a future Palestinian state, by its biblical name of Judea and Samaria, declaring it "the land

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