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...reason to think the Hamas victory will lead anytime soon to discussions with Israel. For one thing, Israel says it won't talk to Hamas until the group disarms, recognizes Israel and commits itself to peace. That's a long way from Hamas' current position. Party officials describe the Oslo accords, negotiated in the early 1990s and languishing ever since, as dead. They say Hamas will never sell out Palestinians' rights, as they believe Fatah did. "As long as we are under occupation, then resistance is our right," Hamas' Syria-based political leader Khaled Mashaal told reporters in Damascus last...
...Having taken responsibility for running an institution created by Oslo, Hamas may have, knowingly or not, taken a major step toward the inevitable. Indeed, ironically, the very fact that it has entered and won these elections affirms the legitimacy of the Oslo institutions it once mocked. Hamas, now, has assumed administrative responsibility for the West Bank and Gaza, territories whose economies remain dependent on that entity next door that Hamas doesn't formally recognize-but negotiates with, albeit indirectly. Five years ago, when Hamas sent suicide bombers to Tel Aviv, Israel would respond by attacking the Palestinian Authority. Now, Hamas...
...destruction," but it's not as if it had really been negotiating with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas before Wednesday's election. Substantive political negotiations between the two sides have not been held since January 2001, shortly before Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister on a promise to bury the Oslo peace process. President Bush's "road map" toward peace is little more than an empty mantra occasionally mouthed by both sides when the Americans are listening, but which neither has shown any serious inclination to implement. If anything, Hamas's victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace...
...Israel, of course, don't seem to see it that way. Hamas must immediately recognize Israel's right to exist, Washington insists. And Israel adds that it has no plans to talk with terrorists. But even the PLO, which negotiated the Oslo accords, only changed its charter to recognize Israel four years after the agreement went into effect. Denying Israel's legitimacy is the starting point of Palestinian nationalism; their own displacement, as the price for the creation and expansion of the Jewish State, lies at the very core of the Palestinians' collective identity. The PLO didn't change...
...laboratory of Woo Suk Hwang had been fabricated, the medical community is reeling from another scientific scandal. The editors of the New England Journal of Medicine announced this evening that they have doubts about the research of Norwegian cancer expert Dr. Jon Sudbo of the Radium Hospital in Oslo. Their formal ?Expression of Concern? about two articles they published from Sudbo and his colleagues in 2001 and 2004 is being released at the Journal?s website (content.nejm.org). This comes after the Lancet issued its own ?Expression of Concern? about research Sudbo published in that medical journal in October of last...