Word: oslo
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...much to gain by bowing to Israel's demands, since he does not trust Netanyahu to proceed with expanding self-rule in return. Says an Arafat confidant: "He basically thinks nothing is possible with Netanyahu." The feeling, of course, is mutual. Even under the Labor Party, which reached the Oslo accords with Arafat, mutual violations of the provisions were common. But then the two leaderships had a solid relationship, providing a base more valuable than the written documents for peace to grow. Now it's gone...
...About 12 minutes after the mystery missile soared onto the radar screens, military analysts could see that it was not heading for Russian territory. It turned out to be a Norwegian scientific rocket sent aloft to observe the aurora borealis. The Norwegians had dutifully notified the Russian embassy in Oslo, but the word was never relayed to the military. "For a while," says Sergei Yushenkov, a member of the Russian parliament's Defense Committee, "the world was on the brink of nuclear...
Kelman's method of mediation, which he has been developing since the 1970s, "prepared the groundwork for what I consider to be the very important breakthrough of the Oslo agreement," Kelman said...
...Oslo accord was the first peace agreement endorsed by both the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Inexperience disrupted the peace process as well. At the outset, recalls a senior U.S. official, "this group of Israelis assumed they could just roll Yasser Arafat." After an early interview, a Jerusalem Post reporter wrote that it was clear Netanyahu hadn't actually read the details of the Oslo accords. For two months his men refused to deal with Arafat's chief negotiator. Even when pressure from Washington got talks under way, Netanyahu thought he could gain leverage by restricting Arafat's use of his helicopter...