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...West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, these territories have been under military occupation, governed by the Fourth Geneva Convention. That remains the legal status of these territories to this day. In spite of the transfer of partial control to the Palestinian Authority in the framework of the Oslo Accords, Israel remains the occupying power and as such controls many facets of daily life for the entire Palestinian population...
Whether or not the current cease-fire effort succeeds, Israel now faces a fundamental political choice in its relations with the Palestinians. That's because the bloodletting of the past 18 months is increasingly acknowledged as the product of the stalled Oslo peace process, which created an armed Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza, yet failed to deliver the promised peace of a "two-state" solution. Israelis are unanimous that the present standoff is untenable, but they're sharply divided over whether the way out is to complete the political separation into two states, or to forcefully reverse...
...White House is also backing Saudi efforts to get the Arab League to agree to normalize relations in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal to its 1967 borders. While Arafat has rushed to calibrate his own positions with the Saudi plan, Sharon has publicly rejected it. Having opposed the Oslo accords from the get-go, the prospect of giving up all or most of the West Bank and Gaza is anathema to the prime minister...
...Sharon is faced with the prospect that in the U.S. perspective, a cease-fire is but a way station en route to renewed land-for-peace political negotiations. As a longtime opponent of Oslo and champion of the settlers, that's not an idea the Israeli leader can love. But, of course, it won't come to pass if Palestinian militants continue to blow themselves up in downtown Tel Aviv...
...feast of cod tongue and potatoes, at the local social security office (which "employs" much of the choir) and on a rollicking concert trip to Russia. They love the simple things that give their lives meaning - family, singing and home in an otherworldly region that is as far from Oslo as Oslo is from Rome. "Perhaps what you seek is in front of your eyes," they sing...