Word: barakã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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However, recent accounts published in the New York Review of Books and in The New York Times suggest that this argument obscures and conceals the role of Barak??s political weakness and Clinton’s exaggerated sense of urgency in the failure of the talks between the Israelis and Palestinians. It also blurs the fact that not all violence is terror, that at least some of what the Palestinians are doing can be understood as a legitimate struggle for independence...
...only to see the “intransigent” Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat decline a deal at the eleventh hour (because, by most accounts, Palestinians would receive only limited sovereignty over East Jerusalem). Undeniably, East Jerusalem carries great religious and symbolic significance to both sides. But Barak??s “concessions” only meant inching closer to Israel’s obligations under Resolution 242 after 34 years of the (illegal) status quo. Arafat’s “intransigence” amounts to insisting upon the letter of international law?...