Word: oslo
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...catastrophes over tens of millions of years and then succumb to environmental changes in a wide variety of habitats just after the first humans arrived. I only hope that modern research can help us learn from our prehistoric mistakes before it's too late for other species. DARREN MCKELLEP Oslo...
...naysayers to commit outrages? After all, if you're an Islamic Jihad leader, your objective is to stop any resumption of the peace process. And it's very easy to do, because one dramatic terror attack may be enough to derail it. Back in the early years of Oslo, Yitzhak Rabin factored that in by uncoupling terrorism from the future of negotiations. He famously said, "We will pursue peace as if there is no terrorism and fight terrorism as if there is no peace." But it's unlikely that Sharon is thinking this...
...settlers demand that Sharon abandon the cease-fire and launch a military campaign to destroy the Palestinian Authority. On the Palestinian side, the Islamists and other militants are openly vowing to continue the fight. The original Oslo peace process factored in efforts by radicals on both sides to sabotage the process, leading to Rabin's formulation that "we will fight terrorism as if there is no peace, and pursue peace as if there is no terrorism." But there's no such separation of issues in Sharon's mind. The duration of the cease-fire may simply be measured...
...Secretary General Kofi Annan reminded the players at the weekend. It's a stepping stone to resuming political negotiations. Absent those, the Palestinians have no incentive to keep the peace. But political negotiations are a major problem for Sharon, because he has very little to offer. He believes Oslo is dead, and insists he'll only discuss long-term interim agreements. But for Arafat, the only purpose of talking to the Israelis rather than fighting them is the possibility that this will achieve his cherished Palestinian state. He'll struggle convince Palestinians that there's any merit in simply agreeing...
...popular will jammed into place by the pressures of the intifadeh and by his unchallenged leadership. But as they look around, Palestinians see a society that is more fractured than ever before and further away from the goal of a free state than at any other time since the Oslo peace process began. Arafat cannot ignore those troubling facts. Now--particularly if his fresh cease-fire holds--he must face the difficult problem of leading his people beyond them...