Word: oslo
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...decide that these people are out of law and we have to go after everybody and every place and every police station, we can do it, and we can do it very quickly. We understand that this is something you cannot do and then return to some kind of Oslo type of process. But there is also no way for us to continue this when six million Israelis are being blackmailed...
...against Israel. Failing that, according to Sharansky, the Israelis plan to destroy the power structure of the Palestinian Authority - which would be unlikely to be replaced by anything more democratic any time soon. Thus Israel's strategic dilemma. Still, there's going to be no Take 2 of Oslo. "Even if Arafat makes arrests and stops the attacks on us and there is some return to negotiations, I think most Israelis now have lost the illusions we had. We know, now, that a real reliable peace can be reached only after some changes in the structure of Palestinian society...
...problem is ultimately a lack of communication. Arafat never made clear to his own people the massive compromises involved in the Oslo Peace process - the fact that the Palestinians were signing away their claim to most of historic Palestine, and that the best the millions of Palestinians descended from those made refugees by Israel's foundation in 1948 could hope for under the circumstances was some form of financial compensation. Arafat told his people that he was in negotiations with Israel that would lead to the creation of a Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital. On the ground, though...
There's a clear potential payoff for the town's few businesses. Otto Moe, general manager of financial software firm Uni Micro, says broadband access should cut costs. The company has 7,000 clients, most of them in Oslo, an hour away by plane. "Customers can now connect to our servers in Modalen for support or access to our databases," Moe says. Before broadband, the company had to maintain offices in Oslo and Bergen to handle customer relations. Now it's expanding in Modalen, adding a new building and more staff...
...based only on his family background. He was jailed by the Israelis several times, and that earned him tremendous respect among Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank. He was not a leader who fought the battle from Tunis (headquarters of Yasser Arafat and the PLO until the Oslo Accord allowed them to return to Ramallah and Gaza). He remained behind and expressed his national feeling on the ground, and went to jail for it. And one of the more important things about his legacy, also, was that his name was never mentioned in connection with the corruption that...