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...sides over who can hurt whom more. Actually, it's an old technique, from the time of the previous Palestinian intifadeh, or uprising, from 1987 to 1993. Israel abandoned the tactic, decried by human-rights groups because it punishes those not involved in violence, after signing the Oslo accords. The return of house demolitions is the latest measure of how, in the 22 months since the Palestinians launched their new intifadeh, the two societies have set back time, erasing the progress of seven years of peacemaking...
...Sharon's Labor Party coalition partners would like to take that plan a step further, making Gaza and Jericho a pilot project for Palestinian statehood (in the same way as they served as the test-bed for the establishment of the PA under the Oslo Accords). But that would require the evacuation of Israeli settlements in Gaza, a step Sharon has refused to even consider. The latest attacks, however, appear to have frozen even the most meager version of the Gaza-and-Jericho first formula...
...reconquer any land." Ben-Eliezer's aides say the Israeli troops will probably stay inside the Palestinian towns only a few weeks. Labor doesn't want to see Israel rebuild the system of military government it dismantled when it handed over the towns to the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo accords. As a Defense Ministry official puts it, "We don't want to handle their sewage." Even if Sharon withstands coalition pressures, a prolonged reoccupation would bring international criticism. That risk was underscored when Israeli forces looking for Islamic Jihad activists in Jenin last week opened fire on Palestinian civilians...
...what they can, and based on their recommendations, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has promised to retaliate even more harshly than he did with Defensive Shield. With a new operation, code-named Determined Path, Sharon promises to reoccupy parts of the West Bank ceded to Palestinian control under the Oslo peace accords--not for a matter of days, as in the past, but indefinitely, says Sharon, "as long as terror continues." It's unclear whether he can pull it off, either logistically or politically. But if he does, it will be the most dramatic reversal of the Oslo process since...
When Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant, and Andersen Consulting went their separate ways last year, the smaller firm endured a lot of teasing for changing its name to Accenture--a handle suggested by someone in the Oslo office. But now that its creative work on Enron's books has turned Arthur Andersen into a global pariah, the consulting firm's name change looks like a stroke of genius. And it's being emulated. PricewaterhouseCoopers--whose accounting work for K Mart and Tyco has been criticized--is spinning off PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting in August. And so eager is the new firm...