Word: oslo
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...recognition of the Palestinians' right to statehood has undergirded both U.S. and Israeli policy in the last decade. President Clinton explicitly endorsed the principle late last year, while Israel's last two Labor Party prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak, implicitly accepted it as a basis for the Oslo peace process with the Palestinians. Oslo was based on the premise of a "two-state" solution to the half-century of conflict. At Camp David, Israelis and Palestinians were not negotiating over whether there would be a Palestinian state, but over the whereabouts of its borders and capital...
...into a cease-fire, but it's hardly a comfortable fit. The truce appears to be buckling under pressure of the renewed fighting, and even if it holds it becomes quickly untenable unless it leads to renewed political negotiations - hence the U.S. statement on Palestinian statehood. But having opposed Oslo from the outset and having voided the deal offered to Arafat by his predecessor, Sharon appears to have very little to bring to the political negotiating table. And after a year in which the intifada has demanded heavy sacrifices of Palestinians, Arafat would struggle to settle for any less than...
...economically ($840 million in aid annually) and militarily ($3 billion more, plus access to advanced U.S. weapons). To a majority of Arabs, Israel, as a Jewish state, is an unwelcome, alien entity. Even to those who accept its existence, Israel is an oppressor of Arab rights; despite the Oslo peace process, it still occupies most of the Palestinian territories. Particularly egregious to Muslims is Israel's control over Islamic shrines in Jerusalem, the third most sacred city to Islam...
...despite this week's renewed commitment to a cease-fire. The first anniversary of the uprising that began in the wake of the breakdown in the Camp David peace finds economy and society on both sides of the divide devastated and traumatized, and any mutual trust established through the Oslo peace process shattered, possibly beyond repair. Still, while leaders on both sides have repeatedly proclaimed that the peace process itself is among the fatalities of the past year's clashes, neither Israel nor the Palestinian leadership has escaped the dilemma that forced it to the negotiating table in the first...
...leading pro-democracy activist, he had endured jailings, beatings and a near execution by Korea's military strongmen. Arriving at the Blue House, he wasted no time launching his peace offensive toward North Korea, flying to Pyongyang last June for a landmark summit. At the awards ceremony in Oslo last October, the chairman of the Nobel committee compared Kim to Mandela, Sakharov and Gandhi: "To outside observers, Kim's invincible spirit may appear almost superhuman." But after a honeymoon, Kim the admired dissident has morphed in the minds of many Koreans into Kim the political operator. While supporters had hoped...