Word: intifadas
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...concrete steps required of each side according to a specific timetable and clear benchmarks. The first phase, he said, would involve concrete measures to stop terrorism and restore security cooperation between the two sides, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all territories reoccupied since the onset of the current intifada in September 2000, and a freeze on Israeli settlement activity in the territories occupied since 1967. The road map idea is based on two linked concerns: to choreograph a way out of the current standoff in which the Israelis say they can't withdraw from territory reoccupied in the current...
...parameters of a settlement is an issue on which President Bush remained curiously silent. The administration has adopted its stance from Sharon himself - Israel is not required to make any movement towards ending its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and curbing settlement activity before the intifada ends. It's a significant break with U.S. policy that until now has held that Israeli settlements in territories captured in 1967 are unacceptable, regardless of the state of the peace process...
...what Israel offers by way of a political solution. There is certainly a strong reform movement in Palestinian society that seeks to be rid of the corrupt and inept administration of Yasser Arafat. But its strongest element has been the West Bank and Gaza militants who waged the first intifada from 1987 to 1991; were sidelined as Arafat and his coterie of Tunis-based exiles took over following the Oslo agreements; and then launched the second intifada when Oslo hit a wall at Camp David...
...dispute. Visiting the Holocaust museum shed new light on the desire for a Jewish homeland. Meeting with a Palestinian journalist, who had to travel illegally to Jerusalem because he is not an Israeli citizen, called attention to the civil rights violations that have occurred in the wake of the Intifada. Hearing the immense sorrow of a woman who lost her daughter in the Dolphinaria disco bombing brought home the fear and pain of living every day under the shadow terror...
...leadership from former defense minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer precisely because Labor had lost its independent identity while serving as the junior partner in Sharon's security-oriented coalition. Mitznah campaigned on calls for reviving political dialogue with the Palestinians where it left off at the start of the current intifada, and moving quickly to evacuate Gaza and much of the West Bank. He knew these positions would not win a majority of voters this time around, but he was campaigning with the next election in mind - and in that spirit, he made a campaign promise to stay...