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Said hoped for the creation of a “bi-state” which would provide equal rights to both Palestinians and Israelis, which he said the Oslo agreement of 1993 failed...
...commonplace the spectacle of broken, bloodied bodies on the streets of Israel?s cities despite the best efforts of its military to kill the commanders and operatives of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade. Some argue that Arafat is the terror kingpin, that the whole Oslo enterprise was a tragic mistake that Israel now has an opportunity to rectify by turning back the clock 12 years. Others see him a cynical power broker flitting between the different Palestinian constituencies and tolerating, rather than directing terror, but preventing the emergence of a new leadership with whom Israel...
...Arafat followed up quickly by naming Qureia to succeed Abbas, tossing a hot potato into President Bush's lap. Qureia, the popular speaker of the Palestinian legislature and key Oslo negotiator, is widely known as a moderate opposed to the armed intifada, who maintains close ties with many European, Arab and even some Israeli leaders (including Sharon's former foreign minister, Shimon Peres). He's not exactly a toady of Yasser Arafat, having clashed publicly with him on previous occasions - in many ways, Qureia's political pedigree is not dissimilar from that of Abbas, except that his personal relationship with...
...those cities in the course of the current intifada, it has studiously avoided long-term deployments or resuming responsibility for civil administration. Even hawkish Israelis who have no intention of surrendering the hundreds of settlements Israel has built throughout the West Bank and Gaza were relieved by the Oslo Accords requirement that they turn over those cities to a Palestinian gendarmerie - having to resume day-to-day patrols, let alone take responsibility for health, education and basic services in the streets of Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron could exponentially raise Israel's casualty figures...
...change. The book, published in the U.K. this month, was the surprise best-selling title in Norway last year and is due for release throughout Europe and in the U.S. over the next several months. With the unexpected proceeds, Seierstad recently bought an apartment in a house in Oslo that was once owned by arctic explorer Roald Amundsen - so she is now plotting her next move in the place where he planned his epic journeys. The characters in The Bookseller of Kabul reflect Afghanistan's contradictions. A man of letters who hid his books from the Taliban in attics across...