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...cartoon on last Friday's editorial page (12/4), depicting Benjamin Netanyahu next to the Wye Peace Accord signed with invisible ink, is unduly cynical in light of recent events in the Middle East. The cartoon implies that the Peace Process is about to collapse and that Israel alone is to blame for this imminent collapse. We disagree with both propositions...
...such pessimism? In the past month Israel has released 250 Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Authority has opened its airport in Gaza, and Israeli troops have begun to withdraw from selected areas of the West Bank. While it is true that Prime Minister Netanyahu has threatened a halt to additional withdrawals, he has done so in response to Chairman Arafat's promise to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state in May 1999 (before the conclusion of the delicate final status peace talks), in direct violation of the Wye Agreement...
...leaders will move beyond this latest obstacle and resume the difficult business of making peace. Considering that the agreement at Wye has not been derailed by two recent terrorist attempts by Palestinian suicide bombers, we see that there is hope for the accord and, eventually, a lasting peace between Israel and the future Palestinian state. BEN LEBWOHL '99 ALEXIS OFFEN '00 Dec. 6, 1998 The writers are co-chairs of Harvard Students for Israel...
...late Saturday. Israeli security forces fired on Palestinian protesters in a West Bank town Friday killing two and wounding 50. "We haven't seen incidents like this since the height of the Intifada uprising ten years ago," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. The immediate flash point is Israel's refusal to release Palestinian security prisoners, but the turmoil highlights the limits of the Wye accord. "Wye produced a new agreement, but no new trust or goodwill," says Beyer. "The two sides still hate each other...
...More worrying for Arafat is the fact that thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel have launched a hunger strike. "The prisoners believe the Palestinian Authority has sold them out, and this is a big opportunity for Hamas and other opposition groups to seize the initiative," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Indeed, some demonstrations over the weekend targeted Arafat's negotiators. The protests may help Arafat press his case right now, but it's unlikely that the 3,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israel will start eating again on the say-so of the man they believe led them...