Israel granted permission for the head of a Palestinian group that has long opposed the Oslo peace process to enter the Palestinian self-rule areas. Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Nayef Hawatmeh, head of the Damascus-based Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is free to enter because he now supports peace.
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