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Among advocates for peace, there are no optimists. There are only those like former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin, and former Palestinian information minister Yasir Abed Rabbo, who refuse to endure a grim status quo. After two and a half years of back-channel negotiations, they signed their unofficial Geneva Accord on Dec. 1, a detailed vision of a two-state solution that settles questions that previous efforts, including Bush’s stillborn Roadmap, dared not touch...
...Beilin and Rabbo’s bold initiative will not itself bring peace, a bleak history suggests, but can advance the cause—as long as the U.S. wrests the accord’s future from Sharon and Arafat. As soon as he knew of the accord’s success, Sharon dismissed it as subversive and treasonous, because it skirted his government, courted Arafat’s approval and boosted the political stature of opponents like Beilin, intent on Israeli regime change. Arafat, meanwhile, has qualified his private support with public vacillation, at once praising the plan...
...This document is virtual, but all of us are real, and our heartbeats are real." YOSSI BEILIN, former Israeli Justice Minister, on the proposed Geneva Accord, a detailed plan for peace in the Middle East, spearheaded by him and his Palestinian counterpart, a former Information and Culture Minister, Yasser Abed Rabbo...
Qurei's caution may also have strategic motivations. Former Israeli peace negotiator Yossi Beilin recalls a conversation with Qurei earlier this year. "Imagine we were to walk out of this room and announce to the Palestinian people that we had concluded an agreement but that there would be concessions on the Palestinian side," Qurei told Beilin. "The people would stone us. But if Arafat were to go out and say the same thing, people would applaud him." For now, however, Arafat seems too enthralled with the plaudits he's getting for obstinacy to even contemplate compromise. --With reporting by Jamil...
...diplomatic route to pressure Israel into withdrawing from the West Bank and Gaza remains a tough sell even to many Palestinians willing to jettison Arafat. And while his longtime efforts as a peacemaker - he famously co-authored a plan for sharing Jerusalem with former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin - have earned Abu Mazen considerable respect in foreign capitals, he has no mass support base of his own among Palestinians. The latest opinion survey published by a respected Palestinian polling organization showed that while some 60 percent of Palestinians supported the move to tap Abu Mazen as prime minister, only...