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...OSLO: It's what Diana would have wanted. The International Campaign to Ban Land Mines won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday ? and if measured by the growth of their movement alone, the award is well-deserved. The ICBL began five years ago as a loose alliance of less than five anti-land-mine groups. Today it comprises over a thousand. And despite the boost given by Diana's support and her tragic death, credit belonged Friday to another woman: American coordinator Jody Williams...
...built without a permit-virtually impossible for Palestinians to attain in the first place. Such action, along with the building of the settlement on Jabal Aba-Ghneim (Har Homa) and last September's opening of a tunnel underneath the Dome of the Rock, is clearly in violation of the Oslo peace accord's stipulation that the status of Jerusalem not be altered until final status negotiations. The authors, on the other hand, are concerned that The Crimson's reference to East Jerusalem as "Arab East Jerusalem" deems it Arab in advance of permanent status negotiations. If they really want...
Even the human-rights groups that provided the impetus for the Oslo meeting do not categorize the U.S. as a sinner. They wanted Washington to sign mainly to put pressure on other major states to get aboard. Now it is unlikely that Russia, China, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel and others will sign on. Nor will North or South Korea. But most of the civilian casualties are suffered in such war-torn states as Cambodia, Angola, Afghanistan, Namibia and Mozambique, where millions of abandoned mines lie in wait. Those countries are expected to sign...
...those on Israel's far right who have benefited from his dollars, Moskowitz is a hero dedicated to restoring all the biblical land of Israel to Jewish possession. He has called the 1993 Oslo peace accords part of a "slide toward concessions, surrender and Israeli suicide" that he is determined to stop. But to many other Israelis he is a meddling, unwelcome outsider, hurling matches, as one local commentator put it, into the Israeli-Palestinian tinderbox, while living safely himself in the U.S. And to the Palestinians, he is one more example of why their hopes for a homeland...
...very difficult for the Palestinians to agree to even these interim talks if Israel was building settlements.? Israel has also agreed to discuss other issues, such as the building of a Palestinian airport, which could help restore the process leading to the tricky "final status" negotiations envisaged by the Oslo Peace Accords. So while the war of words is bound to continue, both sides are likely to act with the restraint necessary to keep the peace process on track...