Word: oslo
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...march on Jerusalem. Asking Arafat and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to control the numerous terrorist factions is equivalent to asking Osama bin Laden to control the al Qaeda terrorists. In Arafat’s Ramallah compound, Israeli forces have found anti-tank weapons, which were explicitly banned under the Oslo accords. In addition, the military has recovered documents that demonstrate the PA directly funds the suicide bombing campaign and was behind the recent Karine A weapons shipment...
...hates you, the land hates you, the trees hate you--there is no purpose in your staying on this land." Palestinian extremists who never accepted Israel's right to exist spearhead the suicide-bombing campaign, while Israeli tanks, under a Prime Minister who has always opposed the Oslo process, roll back into the patches of territory laboriously ceded to the Palestinians since '93. The knottiest of these issues may be the two stubborn old commanders, Sharon and Arafat. Both believe that violence pays, and neither can bear the thought of negotiating with the other. There's nothing in Colin Powell...
...unlikely to tolerate a power vacuum in towns they characterize as hotbeds of terrorism, and that may leave them inclined to maintain security control - from their "buffer zones" - over the major West Bank cities, creating a de facto reoccupation that turns the clock back a decade to the pre-Oslo...
Evidence for Arafat’s involvement with terrorism is overwhelming. Since the beginning of the formal peace process, inaugurated with the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1993, Arafat has addressed his Western audience in one guise and the Arab world in another. On CNN, Arafat has never hesitated to speak of peace and reconciliation with Israel, yet there are countless accounts of speeches, in Arabic, in which Arafat has continued to call for acts of violence against Israel and the eventual destruction of the Jewish state...
...result from escalating frustration. "For 35 years, Palestinians have tried every, every, every means to deal with this intolerable occupation," he says. "We tried to coexist with it. It didn't work. We tried demonstrating against it. It didn't work. We tried secret negotiating channels that led to Oslo and assumed it would lead to a Palestinian state. It didn't work...