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...discussion focused on the lessons to be learned from the Oslo Peace Accords, negotiated in secret by Yassir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin...
...panel also included Yair Hirschfeld, one of the two Israeli originators of the Oslo Peace Process, and Ambassador Dennis Ross, who served as special Middle East coordinator under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and is now a lecturer...
...officials and conservative Republicans. Last year Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld not only played down the idea of settlements being an obstacle to peace, but also questioned the very legitimacy of the land-for-peace doctrine that has been the framework for negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians since the Oslo Accords...
...emergence of a more democratically accountable and antiterrorist leadership around Prime Minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), nobody is expecting that he'll be willing to accept less than a settlement based on a modified version of the 1967 borders. Sharon, who fought tooth and nail against the Oslo peace process, has, until now, signaled that he has no intention of offering anything close to that - indeed, Israeli analysts believe Sharon's idea of Palestinian statehood doesn't extend much beyond a modified version of the 40-50 percent of the West Bank and Gaza currently under the nominal...
...Mideast policy speech last summer. But the Bush administration is spit on whether to continue to support it. Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, a number of key Defense Department appointees and White House Mideast policy supremo Elliot Abrams are noted critics of the Oslo peace process and the idea of Israel giving up the West Bank and Gaza. Rumsfeld even challenges their designation as "occupied territories." Another camp in the administration, led by secretary of State Colin Powell, has consistently pushed for a political solution based on Resolution...