Word: oslo
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...hardly surprising that Israel's Labor Party can't agree on a new leader, because the party of Oslo is no longer sure of what it wants to be. In dealing with the intifada, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon believes time and muscle is on Israel's side, and that the only way forward for the Jewish state is to tough it out, for decades if need be, in the belief that the resolve of its enemies will ultimately weaken. But the more dovish Labor party leaders such as Knesset speaker Avram Burg believe Sharon's strategic vision is the more...
...sawing lead recalled election-night coverage of Florida last November, Burg appeared to edge out current defense minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer - pending the outcome of a recount, and the efforts of both men's lawyers. At stake: the direction of the party that led the Jewish state into the Oslo Accords but is now the junior partner in a coalition led by a fierce opponent of that peace process...
...Oslo: Badly handled or bad idea...
...from Lebanon to Tunisia and roundly defeated its terrorism and guerrilla campaigns launched abroad, the Palestinians under occupation were a fount of renewal for the nationalist movement. The four-year intifada waged in the West Bank and Gaza ultimately forced Israel to a political reckoning with Arafat, and the Oslo accords. And despite its near-total collapse, the Oslo peace process has profoundly altered the terms of battle over the West Bank and Gaza...
...Even if the 63 non-contiguous enclaves controlled by Arafat today don't form much of a state, they're a perfect base for insurgency. Oslo has given the Palestinians guns, plenty of them, and zones of control in which their enemy enters only for short periods in heavily-armed contingents. That, together with a civilian population overwhelmingly supportive of the anti-occupation cause has created perfect conditions for guerrilla warfare - something the PLO never had in exile. In the 70s and 80s, there were isolated terrorist attacks and the occasional kamikaze guerrilla sent across the border on a hang...