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Levy, who helped draft the Geneva Accords in 2003 and worked alongside Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an effort to promote peace after the failed Oslo Accords in 1993, said he was spurred to help end the deadlocked violence in a peaceful manner after seeing that both countries had come close to working out an initial agreement...
...Israeli peace campaigners and in 1977 issued a declaration in favor of a two-state solution, a break from P.L.O. doctrine, which called for the eradication of the Jewish state. Abbas' ties with Israeli officials made him a key Palestinian architect of the secret negotiations that produced the Oslo peace accord in 1993. Even Sharon, who denounced that deal, saw in Abbas a man he could do business with. Seven years ago, Sharon, who was then Infrastructure Minister, invited Abbas to Sycamores Farm, his ranch in the Negev desert. Abbas was the first P.L.O. official Sharon ever...
...some 900 Palestinians imprisoned for lesser offenses, but it steadfastly refuses to free any prisoner ?with blood on his hands.? But it is precisely those prisoners the Palestinians want freed in exchange for a cease-fire, starting with the 237 whose acts of violence were committed before the 1993 Oslo Accords when the PLO ostensibly ended hostilities with Israel. Not only does the very idea of freeing those who have killed Israelis tear at Sharon?s own instincts, but such a move would almost certainly strengthen the hand of those on the right flank of his own party...
...sides? agendas diverge even further when it comes to the next steps required of each. For Abbas, a ceasefire is a means to quickly revive the stalled Oslo negotiations over a final agreement separating Israel and a Palestinian state. Indeed, it is this ?political horizon? that creates the very rationale for a ceasefire on the Palestinian side, and Abbas has been hard at work for weeks now forging a common negotiating position among Palestinian factions. In what would be a remarkable shift on the part of Hamas - or a realization, like that experienced by the PLO in the 1980s, that...
...world's poor and dispossessed. U.N. headquarters could, for instance, be moved to a large cosmopolitan center in Australia, Asia or Africa. It might also be possible to consider limiting the time for a chosen location to a period not to exceed 20 or 25 years. Trond Foyn Oslo, Norway Man-Made Deity "Is God in Our Genes?" was interesting but hardly surprising [Nov. 29]. The answer to the basic question of whether religion was created by man from cues sent from above or a sense of the divine evolved in us has long seemed obvious to north Europeans...