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...sinking deeper and deeper into recession. In the absence of any political horizon to the conflict, which would include an end of the occupation, this decline is liable to become permanent." Things look even worse on the Palestinian side. The BBC reports that a meeting of international donors in Oslo agreed to provide $1.2 billion in aid to rebuild Palestinian infrastructure destroyed by the Israeli military campaign - and that's $800 million short of the World Bank's estimated requirement of the cost of restoring basic services. A Norwegian finance official added wanly that the international community hoped Israel would...
...some extent with what the Arab League has proposed. And also with the thinking of Israel's leading military theorist, the Hebrew University's Martin Van Creveld, who argued recently that "Whether because Mr Arafat does not want to end terrorism or because he cannot do so, another Oslo Agreement is not on the cards. Therefore Israel's one salvation is to get out and build a wall - a wall so high not even the birds can fly over it - and permit the Palestinians to establish their state on the other side of it, as the Saudi peace plan suggests...
...besieged Ramallah compound. One of them was even sentenced to 18 years hard labor, and there?s certainly no shortage of manual work to do in the ruins of Ramallah. Unimpressed by the proceedings, Israel continues to demand their extradition, although the Palestinian Authority insists that under the Oslo agreements it is the proper authority to try the men. But it?s not lost on wider Palestinian society that not only the accused, but also the judges, prosecutor and the PA security men summarily appointed as 'lawyers' are all, in fact prisoners of the Israelis, right now. The Economist quotes...
...Tanzim militias in this intifada, and Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the blind spiritual leader of Hamas. The moderate negotiators from Arafat's inner circle such as Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen) and Ahmed Qurei (a.k.a. Abu Ala) are aging and in ill health, and their intimate involvement in the failed Oslo process has made them magnets for considerable Palestinian rage. The CIA-vetted security chiefs favored by Washington, Mohammed Dahlan and Jibril Rajoub, are equally tainted by their role as the gendarmes of Arafat's corrupt administration - never mind the political kiss-of-death that comes with implicit U.S. endorsement...
...Arab allies) and stop the attacks on Israel. The carrot: Perform those tasks to U.S. satisfaction over the next 18 months and the Palestinians will get a provisional state in those territories currently designated as under Palestinian Authority control - in other words, a return to the failed 1993 Oslo deal, but with the Palestinian Authority now called a provisional state. A final political agreement would follow within three years...