Word: oslo
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...past six weeks, tensions have steadily mounted between Israelis and Palestinians; as of yesterday, 207 lives had been lost in this latest surge of violence, many of them civilians. The Oslo peace process, so promising until late September, teeters on the edge of an abyss; at any moment, the careful work of the last seven years crashing down...
...fear of "Lebanization" of the conflict arises from the deadlock in the peace process. Neither Barak nor Arafat can afford, politically, to return to the negotiating table in the near term, and both sides have tacitly acknowledged that the Oslo process is essentially dead. Indeed, the White House's rhetorical switch last week from referring to reviving "the peace process" to talking of restoring "a political process" between Israelis and Palestinians appears to confirm that while negotiations ultimately remain inevitable, they may occur within a framework quite different from the one President Clinton has overseen throughout his tenure...
...party to any agreement between Arafat and the Zionists. Arafat is committed to the strategy of negotiations. He endorsed [the Palestinian faction] Fatah's participating in the intifadeh for one single reason--he wanted to escape American pressure. From the moment Arafat signed the Oslo accords, he abandoned Fatah's revolutionary nature. Most Fatah leaders are interested these days in achieving financial gains and not in liberating Palestine. Fatah is becoming a fat cat, and fat cats don't play aggressively. They are only in favor of filling their stomachs with food...
...reaching out to each other. But judging from the proposals being floated by the Palestinian Authority right now, the talks both men will hold with President Clinton in Washington later this weeks are more likely to be exploratory "talks about talks" than any kind of speedy resumption of the Oslo Accord-based peace process that the President had hoped to wrap up at Camp David in August...
...reaching out to each other. But judging from the proposals being floated by the Palestinian Authority right now, the talks both men will hold with President Clinton in Washington later this weeks are more likely to be exploratory "talks about talks" than any kind of speedy resumption of the Oslo Accord-based peace process that the President had hoped to wrap up at Camp David in August...