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Kelman's method of mediation, which he has been developing since the 1970s, "prepared the groundwork for what I consider to be the very important breakthrough of the Oslo agreement," Kelman said...
...Oslo accord was the first peace agreement endorsed by both the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Inexperience disrupted the peace process as well. At the outset, recalls a senior U.S. official, "this group of Israelis assumed they could just roll Yasser Arafat." After an early interview, a Jerusalem Post reporter wrote that it was clear Netanyahu hadn't actually read the details of the Oslo accords. For two months his men refused to deal with Arafat's chief negotiator. Even when pressure from Washington got talks under way, Netanyahu thought he could gain leverage by restricting Arafat's use of his helicopter...
...planning to propose that Israel and the Palestinians immediately launch intensive negotiations, to be capped by a Camp David-style summit, to determine the final status of the Palestinian territories rather than proceed with a step-by-step implementation of Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank under the Oslo accords. In an interview with TIME editors on Wednesday, Netanyahu said he presented this idea to King Hussein of Jordan when he visited Jerusalem on Sunday. He characterized Jordanian and American reaction as being "intrigued." He said that the strategy of negotiating phased withdrawals created cycles of friction over relatively small...
Levitin is right about one thing. The Oslo accords must be renounced. Not because, as he suggests, they are damaging Israel. But because under the craven capitulation of Arafat they give up all Palestinian rights to control over water, to an independent economy, to sovereignty over large swathes of the West Bank and the Gaza strip, to self-determination in any meaningful sense. Because the Oslo Accords represent, in short, the historic defeat of the Palestinian people. Tanya Geha '00 Jonathon Conant G1 Aykan Erdemir G1 Asli Niyazioglu G1 Demetri Kastritsis G1 Khaled Said G1 China Mieville, Special Student Charles...