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...Israeli prime minister's political achievement has been to take the question of a political solution to the conflict off the table, using Palestinian terrorism as the rationale to advance an agenda quite different from the peace process that began with Oslo. Whenever he has faced domestic and foreign pressure for any movement, he's taken unilateral steps in pursuit of a vision that has little in common with a two-state solution as understood by negotiators on both sides of the Oslo process. The security wall is a case in point: The initiative to build a wall separating Israel...
...United Nations Resolution 242, which was the basis of the Oslo process, requires Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, and negotiations with the Palestinians over a two-state solution have until now been based on a return to 1967 borders, or modifying them by mutual consent. The outline agreement achieved in the final days of Ehud Barak's administration in talks with Palestinian representatives at Taba remains the furthest the two sides have come to achieving an agreement over borders. It recognized the 1967 lines as the basis for talks, suggesting that Israel could incorporate the large settlement blocs...
...envisaged managing the conflict between the two peoples via a series of long-term interim agreements, which the Palestinians are bludgeoned into accepting by the superiority of Israeli arms. And the upsurge of intifada violence quickly eclipsed talk of peace formulas, creating a context for Sharon's rollback of Oslo to the point that he has longsince pronounced it dead and buried...
Three years ago, I came to America. Things were starting to fall apart in the Palestinian territories, and the peace that was born at Oslo a few years earlier was dying. It was the beginning of the end for the once hoped-for peace between Arabs and Jews. For me, it was the beginning of a new journey in life: a search for an opportunity in distant lands not torn by hate and injustice...
Like many great works, neither painting was insured for theft. The high premiums on very famous pictures would be budget busters even for the largest museums. An earlier version of The Scream--there are four--was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo 10 years ago. Three months later, officers from Scotland Yard posing as art experts from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles approached the thieves with an offer to buy the painting, then arrested them when they produced...