Word: oslo
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...saddens me to say it, but since the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Occupied Territories have shown a striking resemblance to my country under apartheid rule. The impoverished Palestinians live in squalid third-world conditions alongside the first-world Israeli settlers. Much like the black South Africans under my government’s rule, Palestinians can’t even travel on the same roads as the settlers, and they are confined to tiny Bantustans. When they wish to leave their Bantustan to go to the market, school or work, they are subject to the whims of the Israeli Defense...
...fret. The Nobel Peace Prize committee is a forgiving bunch. Withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza and maybe they’ll give you the prize too. Heck, I went from presiding over death squads to shaking hands with Nelson Mandela and sipping Dom Perignon in Oslo. And believe me, retiring as a Nobel laureate is a lot more fun than spending your final days in the Hague, awaiting an imminent war crimes indictment...
...hover menacingly, ready to resume the mantle of Likud party leadership from Sharon as soon as the party holds a primary. So simply maintaining the present impasse almost certainly seals Sharon's fate at the hands of his own party faithful. Also, his restless foreign minister Shimon Peres - the Oslo architect increasingly desperate to restore political dialogue with the Palestinians - has been running his own talks with Ahmed Qurei in pursuit of a new peace formula...
...Last December, Ariel Sharon proclaimed Arafat "irrelevant." And nowhere is that more true than in the lives of the 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. They wake each day to the harsh reality of an Israeli occupation modified, but never ended, by the Oslo Accords. They endure the roadblocks that turn a 20-minute drive into a six-hour one, the checkpoints that stop women in labor from reaching hospitals, the curfews, the siege, the grinding, ever-deepening poverty, the air raids, the incursions, the demolitions of homes and fields and the incremental loss of their lands...
...Regardless of the depths of their mutual loathing right now, there is an inevitability about both sides returning to the logic that produced Oslo. The alternative is to embrace the present bloody stalemate as their lot for the foreseeable future. And the logic that produced Oslo, which also remains the cornerstone of U.S. policy, is contained in United Nations Resolution 242 - Israeli withdrawal from the territories captured in 1967 on a basis that guarantees Israel's security and recognition by its Arab neighbors...