Word: oslo
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...that the PFLP will mind. The left-wing faction had traditionally opposed the Oslo peace process, and like many of Arafat's own rank and file they reject his current cease-fire and renewed negotiations with Israel. Unlike Islamic Jihad and Hamas who may be inclined right now to act in sympathy with Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, the PFLP is a secular leftist group traditionally aligned with Syria. The killing of their leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, by an Israeli missile fired into his office in August had sparked widespread Palestinian fury and vows of vengeance. And by provoking...
...While the U.S. vision of a political solution based on Oslo may be broadly endorsed among its Arab allies, achieving an Israeli-Palestinian agreement to pursue such a solution remains as unlikely now as it would have been at 8.50 a.m. Eastern on September 11. While the terror attacks may have changed much in the world around them, very little has changed in relations between Israelis and Palestinians. Except, perhaps, in the incentives for resuming dialogue, and the disincentives for failing to do so. It is worth remembering, though, that it was not domestic epiphany that led to that historic...
...national character" of each state, i.e. Israel as Jewish and Palestine as Palestinian, which would presumably limit the return of Palestinian refugees to Israel and also the presence of Israeli settlers in what would become Palestine; and A reiteration of U.N. Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 and the Oslo Accords as the basis of any future political settlement...
...Despite Powell's repeated assurances that Israel's security remains of paramount importance to Washington, much of his vision is profoundly unpalatable to Ariel Sharon. Sharon fought tooth-and-nail against Oslo's land-for-peace trade, and believes Israel's survival depends on holding much of the land it currently occupies in the West Bank. And it was to underline his rejection of sharing Jerusalem that he marched up the Temple Mount with a thousand police and troops just over a year ago, setting off protests that Palestinian leaders quickly turned into the current intifada...
...pair of panties over his head to rob a post office, but the drunken Norwegian foiled his brilliant plan by writing his demand note on a piece of paper that had his wife’s name on it. Oslo police captured him in two days...