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...nothing particularly new about it - a de facto a recognition of the Palestinians' right to statehood has undergirded both U.S. and Israeli policy in the last decade. President Clinton explicitly endorsed the principle late last year, while Israel's last two Labor Party prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak, implicitly accepted it as a basis for the Oslo peace process with the Palestinians. Oslo was based on the premise of a "two-state" solution to the half-century of conflict. At Camp David, Israelis and Palestinians were not negotiating over whether there would be a Palestinian state, but over...
...voided the deal offered to Arafat by his predecessor, Sharon appears to have very little to bring to the political negotiating table. And after a year in which the intifada has demanded heavy sacrifices of Palestinians, Arafat would struggle to settle for any less than he was offered by Barak after Camp David...
...something so close to it that the precise term makes little difference. But to satisfy Israel's remaining doves, Sharon also has to contemplate a sort of peace with the Palestinians, albeit one very different from that bruited at the failed Camp David summit between Arafat and Ehud Barak last year. While Barak wanted to negotiate an end to the conflict, Sharon is looking for what his aides call a "long-term interim settlement." To counter Israel's vulnerability, Sharon's advisers say he intends to insist on buffer zones both along the inside of the West Bank where...
...tactics do not a strategy make, and Sharon's strategic vision may alarm those Labor politicians who believe Israel's future depends on a comprehensive peace. Sharon considers that belief na?ve and dangerous, and has made no secret of the fact that the deals offered by Ehud Barak are null and void...
...anybody's guess. After all, the 1949 armistice was simply a case of four neighboring states having to accept the failure of their invasion of the nascent Jewish state. There is simply no conceivable incentive for the Palestinians living under the current terms of occupation to refrain from fighting - Barak, when asked on the campaign trail in 1999 what he would have done if he'd been born Palestinian, answered "I would, at some stage, get involved in one of the terror organizations and join the struggle," adding that later he would try to pursue the same goals through political...