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...democracy activist, he had been jailed, beaten and nearly executed by Korea's military strongmen. After finally making it to the Blue House, he wasted no time in launching a peace offensive and flying to Pyongyang in June 2000 for a historic summit. At the awards ceremony in Oslo last October, the chairman of the Nobel committee compared Kim to Mandela and Gandhi...
...even without Israel imposing a "buffer zone" on the West Bank, Arafat remains in an uncomfortable position. Sharon insists there will be no discussion of political concessions before a cease-fire has taken hold, and he's dead set against any resumption of the Oslo process. But a cease-fire requires Arafat to rein in the militants, and he's unlikely to risk confrontation with the hard-liners of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and even his own Fatah organization without a political prize to offer Palestinians as reward. After all, the majority of Palestinians polled in various surveys support violence against...
...ability to reopen the road of diplomacy as a viable route to statehood and an end to the occupation. Not the diplomatic grandstanding of trying to get the world to call Israel names at a racism conference, but the diplomacy of internationally-choreographed quid-pro-quo that began with Oslo. Without a peace process to speak of, Arafat will be relegated to an increasingly symbolic role as the center of gravity in Palestinian politics shifts towards those who believe Israel can be driven out of the West Bank and Gaza through protracted guerrilla warfare. And those militants are likely...
...Like Arafat, Peres's own political position is in large part dependent on the survival of some kind of peace process, too. As an architect of Oslo, he too wants to maintain his place in history as a leader who won security for Israel at the negotiating table. And like Arafat, the absence of a peace process leaves him threatened with political extinction. Arafat and Peres shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for their Oslo effort. But even if a new breakthrough were possible, right now, neither man appears to have the freedom of maneuver to choreograph...
...reading of the changing regional and global dynamics that saw Israel's long-term survival as dependent on transforming its political relationship with its Arab neighbors by trading land for peace. Sharon rejected that principle as foolhardy and reckless. The question before the Labor party today, then, is whether Oslo failed because of leadership failures on one or both sides, or whether it had been a bad idea to begin with. In other words, the party of Rabin is now facing a choice between his way and Sharon...