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...Oslo's basic premise was that the Palestinians would renounce violence and guarantee Israel's security in exchange for Israel agreeing in principle to end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. That Oslo's breakdown has led to a resumption of violence is no surprise; before the agreement, the two sides had been locked in a six-year intifada...
...Palestinian society, and the Palestinians believe they can outlast the Israelis in a war of attrition. The reason: Israel is a relatively prosperous middle class society plugged into the global economy, and less than one percent of its population actually live in settlements in the West Bank and Gaza; but the three million Palestinians who live there are an occupied people in desperate social and economic straits. Unlike the Israelis, the Palestinians believe they have little to lose...
...Israel's leading hawks would become Prime Minister in a landslide victory of would have been laughed at. So, too, the idea that the fierce enemy of the Oslo peace process and longtime champion of the movement to settle Israelis in the occupied lands of the West Bank and Gaza could govern in coalition with the likes of Oslo architect and arch-dove Shimon Peres. Equally outlandish, perhaps, was the idea that a man so out of step with the prevailing drift in U.S. policy to settle the Middle East conflict via a land-for-peace swap would manage...
...destroy the long-term prospects for peace. The President tore into Arafat for failing his people in refusing to stop terror attacks, but at the same time held out a carrot with strong calls for Palestinian statehood and an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. And he demanded that as Israel steps back, responsible Palestinian and Arab leaders step forward to act decisively against terrorism...
...contain some bad news for Sharon. Washington appeared to link cease-fire efforts to the broader goal of achieving Palestinian statehood, and he set out goals in this respect that will make the Israeli leader uncomfortable. Bush demanded an end to Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza, and insisted that Israel's occupation of those territories must be ended "through withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries consistent with United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338." Tough talk that suggests a parting of ways, sooner or later, between the U.S. and Sharon...