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...Israelis insist their security needs now require this de-facto reoccupation of Area A, and are openly disdainful of the Bush administration's plans to rebuild PA security structures in the hope they'll resume their Oslo-mandated function...
...into Jenin suggested that Israel and the Palestinians are back at Square 1. And Square 1 is not simply the situation of two months ago, or even two years ago. The two sides have managed to rewind the clock by a decade, all the way back to before the Oslo agreement...
...Defensive Shield" marked a paradigm shift for the Israelis: The foundation of Oslo was that the Palestinian Authority would assume security control of the territories designated "Area A" - under full Palestinian control - and prevent attacks on Israel from such areas, while the Israelis would recognize PA control and keep their own forces out of Area A. "Defensive Shield" sounded notice that from an Israeli security point of view, Area A has ceased to exist. Israel now conducts daily operations inside the towns that Oslo placed under PA control, and is, as far as the lives of ordinary Palestinians are concerned...
...Palestinian Authority was created by the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1994 as an interim administrative body that would serve as the foundation for a Palestinian state. Oslo envisaged a final-status agreement between the two sides by 1999, at which point the PA would be replaced by a government created on the basis of the constitution of the new Palestinian state. That's why the mandate of the current PA legislature and Chairman Arafat himself, democratically elected in early 1996, expired in 1999. But the absence of a final status agreement has, until...
...Oslo mandated the creation of a large armed Palestinian security force, both to maintain order and, to fulfill the agreement's requirement that the PA deploy its own forces to protect Israel's security from attack by Palestinians. Arafat ultimately created 12 separate security structures in Gaza and the West Bank, each answerable directly to himself. That allowed Arafat to play off potential rivals against one another and prevent the emergence of any significant challengers...