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...sides would resume security cooperation, and Israel would lift its blockade on Palestinian areas and freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza. After four weeks, if the cease-fire holds, the two sides would resume political negotiations where they were left off with the Barak administration...
...problems with a blanket freeze on settlement activity. He's also questioning the four-week timetable, proposing a three-month cooling off period before talks. But most important, Sharon has made abundantly clear that he has no intention of negotiating on the basis of offers made by Ehud Barak. Sharon considers the Oslo peace process over, and wants to negotiate a series of long-term interim non-belligerency agreements with the Palestinians...
...that's how his girlfriend likes it b) of his new glow-in-the-dark stars c) he didn't pay his electricity bill d) of Barak's energy deregulation plan...
...Taken at his own word, the Israeli leader appears set on disabusing his own people of the (in his view naïve) hope fostered by Rabin and Barak that peace is possible in the short term, instead bolstering their readiness and their will to fight wars cold or hot for the foreseeable future. And whether or not his analysis is sound, it may well be a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...part of a comprehensive peace plan that included Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in 1967. Negotiations to that end were begun by the late Yitzhak Rabin, more tentatively pursued through back channels by Benjamin Netanyahu and taken almost to the point of conclusion by Ehud Barak. But Sharon made clear in an interview published over the weekend that he believes Israeli withdrawal from the Golan is unacceptable under any circumstances, and that he won't consider it. In other words, from the Syrian point of view, Sharon is signaling that Damascus has nothing to discuss with...