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Since the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993, Israel has enjoyed periods of considerable economic prosperity. Foreign investment increased, startups mushroomed, roads were built and repaved and surround-sound theaters popped up everywhere. Growth rates and standard of living figures began approaching those in western Europe. A long break in large-scale suicide attacks beginning in the middle of 1996 allowed many Israelis to believe that they were safe going to the gym after work, visiting Internet cafes and reading about other people’s problems in the newspapers...
Lewis accuses me of coming close to “propaganda” essentially for organizing a session on the Oslo accords and for showing two films in a separate series. On Oslo, I did invite Associate Professor of Government Eva Bellin and Rami Khouri to speak to our students for 20 minutes each to open up a discussion. Khouri is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard from Jordan. He is a Christian Palestinian, respected as a journalist who is generally considered to be a “dove.” He made what seemed rather a mild statement since...
...Stark, churning out hit films such as The Sunshine Boys (1975), The Turning Point (1977) and Steel Magnolias (1989). AWARDED. To the U.N. and its Secretary-General, KOFI ANNAN, 63, the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their work for "a better organized and more peaceful world"; in Oslo. Annan, who first took up the post in 1997, has already been elected to serve a second term. ELECTED. NANCY PELOSI, 61, feisty San Francisco Congresswoman, to the position of Democratic whip in the U.S. House of Representatives; in Washington, D.C. That makes her the highest-ranking Congresswoman ever...
...meeting Peres insisted that Israel could not leave before Arafat handed over Zeevi's killers - a point hammered home by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Monday when he flatly rejected the Bush administration's call. But the Palestinian Authority has no intention of handing over the gunmen, claiming that the Oslo Accord requires only that they be arrested and tried under Palestinian law. U.S. statements on the issue have not mentioned Israel's extradition demand...
...reason for concern over strategies that erode the Palestinian leader's domestic political standing. Repeated incursions into PA territory may raise pressure on Arafat to do more against the militants, but they also undermine his ability to show Palestinians that what was achieved by negotiating with Israel in the Oslo process was an end to Israel's occupation of those areas. Those perceptions ultimately reinforce the claims of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militants who oppose a resumption of negotiations and advocate guerrilla war. Still, Israeli public opinion right now is far closer to Sharon's take on Araft than...