Word: oslo
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Even if those in the Labor camp were not immediately persuaded by the scenes of mayhem to change their allegiance to Netanyahu and the Likud Party, perhaps they now have a better appreciation for their fellow Israelis' reluctance to support the Oslo Accords in the first place. The valid suspicion of Israeli moderates over the questionable issue of placing automatic machine guns into their enemy's hands gained immeasurable credibility when the barrels of those very guns were directed against the Israelis themselves last week. A Palestinian witness, confirmed by both The New York Times and The Washington Post, admitted...
...called "inability" to restrain the enemies of peace. Original fears that the Palestinian security forces were not adequately equipped to deal with their own extremists have been substituted for the more worrisome concern that they are, in some cases, members of such groups. As the opponents of Oslo have long claimed, this has the explosive and dangerous potential to create true Palestinian unity amongst countless fundamentalist fringe groups. Until now the disunity of these extremists has been an extra card in the hand of the true seekers of peace...
...impossibility of confiscating the Palestinians' weapons, should that need ever have arisen? In the wake of the latest events, this appears to be an increasingly likely and favorable option. Such an effort, however, would be tremendously complicated by the proliferation of weapons which has resulted from the shortsighted Oslo plan. I, for one, find it difficult to picture 40,000 Palestinian policemen meekly handing over their assault rifles for any reason whatsoever. How many lives would be lost in the war that would result from trying to take those weapons back? Perhaps this was one of the more thorny issues...
Furthermore, the current move violates Israeli assurances under the Oslo Accords that no changes will be made in the disputed city until final status negotiations are concluded. Israel's attempts to change the demographic nature of the city are illegal under the provision of the Geneva Conventions which prohibit occupiers from changing the demography of occupied territories. Israeli continues to expand its settlements in and around East Jerusalem and confiscate Palestinian property in the city...
...direction things were going which explains their quick response in agreeing to come here." Netanyahu and Arafat took a private lunch that White House spokesman Mike McCurry said went "a long way to re-establishing the notion of trust" that led Israel and the Palestinian Authority to signing the Oslo peace accords three years ago. But so far there has been no word of concrete movement on the issues by either side. "Netanyahu has painted himself into a corner, so he will really have to back down in order to be seen as making any concessions," Simons reports. "He says...