Word: intifadas
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...resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the scene of such disappointment four and a half years ago when talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority failed to stop the second intifada from spiraling out of control, recently played host to the unveiling of a new cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. We enthusiastically applaud the new cease-fire agreed to last Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and fervently hope that it will be strictly obeyed by both sides...
...mainstream of Palestinian politics, and in recent municipal elections in Gaza its candidates handily thrashed those of Abbas?s own Fatah movement. While Abbas was certainly democratically elected, his mandate comes as much from the Al Aqsa Brigades as from supporters of his own view that the armed intifada has been a self-inflicted catastrophe for Palestinian national interests...
...State of Israel is an intractable reality - the Islamist organization has signaled its readiness to accept the principle of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Not that Abbas necessarily expects to cut a deal with Sharon. He has long argued that by launching the armed intifada, the Palestinians squandered the international support, particularly among Western nations, which he believes remains their most effective means of leverage behind the Palestinian negotiating position. By ending violence, Abbas hopes to restore that support - and some of his backers have even suggested that a more moderate posture from the Palestinians will...
...Abbas, moreover, recognizes that Hamas is an integral part of Palestinian society today, having been moved into the mainstream by the intifada. In recent municipal elections in the West Bank, the movement demonstrated the depth of its political support by winning an estimated 35 percent of the vote. And if they contest the legislative election set for March - which they look set to do - they can expect to win a little over 50 percent in Gaza, which together with a third of the West Bank vote could give them as much as 40 percent of the national vote. The idea...
...mildly, not exactly what Ariel Sharon has in mind. Indeed, the Israeli prime minister resurrected his political career and eventually won the prime minister's job - an outcome unthinkable even in his own party until it became inevitable following the onset of the September 2000 intifada - by leading an aggressive campaign against the Oslo process. Yasser Arafat was widely pilloried in the U.S. for rejecting what was offered at Camp David by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It is worth noting, however, that Sharon was, if anything, far more vehement in his rejection of the same deal...