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...differently from Sharon if he were faced with the realities of power. An editorial in Maariv suggested he doesn't even believe that a Palestinian state can be stopped. And Netanyahu's own record in power, moreover, suggests he knows the score: Elected as a fierce opponent of the Oslo accords, he was nonetheless forced, as prime minister, to observe it - by withdrawing from Hebron, for example - while Sharon snapped at his heels from the right. It is an unwritten rule of Israeli politics that no prime minister can afford to defy Washington for any length of time, and Palestinian...
...Even as he found himself increasingly at odds with the mood on the Palestinian streets in the final years of the Oslo Accords, Arafat relied on his relationship with these competing security forces and militias for his power. Any move to consolidate the PA's security structures into a single force - much less to disarm the militias as envisaged by CIA director George Tenet's cease-fire plan - is likely to provoke fierce power struggles. The rivalry between West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub and his Gaza counterpart Mohammed Dahlan has been increasingly open since the Israeli invasion, while...
...cease-fires with the Israelis. A more democratic Palestinian leadership would naturally be more responsive to the concerns of its constituency, and therefore possibly even more difficult for the Israelis to deal with than Arafat. Even before the latest intifada, the Palestinian public had lost faith that the Oslo peace process could bring a peaceful end to the occupation and remove Israeli settlements from their midst. In the absence of any new political process to achieve those ends, they may be looking for a leadership to more firmly stand up to Israel than acquiesce to its requirements. A more democratic...
...story, Mohammad abrogated the treaty.” Muslims must take issue with Gorin’s accusation that the Prophet unilaterally abrogated the treaty in question. Gorin refers to the Treaty of Hudaybiyah between the Muslims of Medina and the Quraysh of Mecca. Yasser Arafat compared the Oslo Peace Accords to this treaty in a statement at a South African mosque. The accusation of an abrogation of the treaty by the Prophet (and with it, of an intention of breaking the treaty at one’s convenience) falls flat. The historical evidence tells us that Mohammad...
...Palestinian leadership tells many confusing stories about how the world should view suicide bombers. In the old version, from the days when Oslo was on track, the Palestinian leadership said that suicide attacks were being carried out against its desire by renegades—fanatics. More recently, however, the rhetoric has changed. The Palestinian leadership still condemns the attacks, but it now sympathies with the bomber. In the new version, the bomber is the victim of the story. It is always emphasized that Israeli occupation has driven the suicide bomber to his act of depravity. In this twisted way, Israel...