Word: accords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrangements for signing the Declaration of Principles for Palestinian self-rule in Washington this week had its delicate moments. At the request of both sides, President Bill Clinton arranged the splashy White House ceremony to give the process a boost (and, of course, to associate his Administration with an accord the U.S. had not directly helped negotiate). Clinton left it up to both sides to pick the representatives, and on Friday the Israelis planned to send Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and the Palestinians P.L.O. Executive Committee member Abu Mazin. But at 7 p.m. Friday the Palestinians told State Department officials...
Syria, on the other hand, remains rather glum about the P.L.O.-Israeli deal. Although President Hafez Assad gave it distant approval, he is miffed at being made to look as if he is following Arafat in concluding an accord with Israel instead of playing the lead Arab role he prefers. He might also fear that the Israeli-P.L.O. agreement sets an uncomfortable precedent for his own negotiations to get the Golan Heights back from Israel. The Declaration of Principles foresees a gradual, step-by-step Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Assad seeks a total Israeli...
...might have sustained its oppressive empire for many more years. The unrelenting pressure from the U.S. and NATO that forced Moscow into bankruptcy opened the way for dissent that swelled to overwhelming dimensions. A whole realignment of the geopolitical stars brought Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat to their fateful accord: the end of the cold war eliminated superpower rivalry for the affections of Arab states, and made Israel realize that it could not count on a strategic alliance with the U.S.; victory in the Gulf War made the U.S. the sole regional power, opened the door to diplomacy...
Hence the great emphasis in the Israel- P.L.O. peace accord on economic cooperation and regional development. (It takes up nearly a quarter of the text.) The peace plan hinges on the assumption that once the Palestinians are given the opportunity to build their own homeland, they will find enough satisfaction in building to give up fighting. Which explains all the clauses devoted to transportation links and development banks, canal digging and grid linking -- mundane schemes of all kinds between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territory that conjure up a vision of nothing less than Benelux- on-the-Jordan...
...Jewish settlers what they would do if the Gaza-Jericho first plan is adopted. Only 2% said they would take part in armed resistance against the Israeli authorities; 11% promised to take up arms but only against the future Palestinian police. Nearly half said they would actively resist the accord without the use of arms...