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What happens to a peace deferred? More than 800 Israeli and 2,200 Palestinian deaths into the second intifada—deaths that scorn Bush’s Roadmap, like Clinton’s efforts at Oslo, Camp David and Taba—Langston Hughes would answer without equivocation. It explodes...
...mullahs know the world was watching. And though she was later convicted of defaming the Islamic Republic, given a two-year suspended sentence and temporarily barred from practicing law, the world has been watching ever since - which is one reason why Ebadi, 56, will be in Oslo this week to receive the 2003 Nobel Prize for Peace. She is being honored as Iran's human-rights champion - a defender of political prisoners, oppressed women, abused children - and though she shuns politics, the award gives a needed boost to the freedom struggle in Iran. Despite high hopes raised by the election...
...United States should support the Geneva Accord. It gives an end-game which was lacking in Oslo and is lacking in the Road Map. Neither side will be happy, but compromises are not about making one side happy over the other. The United States should support it for no other reason than to jump-start the peace talks. Frederick H. Marsh Richmond...
...Geneva is the Oslo stew hastily re-cooked: Israel delivers land and the PA supposedly delivers an intangible called peace. Under this understanding, Israel has already delivered portions of land; the PA has used every inch of that land to boost their only protected industry: explosive belts for Palestinian kids to die kiling Jewish kids. Should we order more of the same? What you see is what you get. Eduardo Joselevich Buenos Aires, Argentina...
...He’s pretty nuts,” says David B. Adelman ’04, former president of Harvard Students for Israel (HSI). But Martillo, a Boston-based entrepreneur who started selling computer products in the Palestinian territories after the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, is no dilettante when it comes to Middle Eastern issues, although his views lie well beyond the mainstream. “The first time I went through a checkpoint and had to experience this as Palestinians did... I began to believe that we [in the United States] were on the wrong side...