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...Palestinians are poised for a revolution. And I am not referring to the war of resistance that has been going on against Israel since 1948. The new revolution--whose seeds were sown in the ill-fated Oslo Accords of 1993--will not be targeted at Israel. It will be against Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian National Authority...
Does a condemned man brush his teeth on the morning of his execution? You bet he does. And so it should be no surprise that Israeli and Palestinian officials continue to sit around a table and discuss a peace deal to while away the final hours of the Oslo peace process...
...reduce any new deal to no more than a chronicle of what might have been. Because while Barak has thus far failed to tempt Arafat to accept 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, as well as a patchwork of Jerusalem neighborhoods, Sharon has said that Oslo is null and void and that his idea of peace involves no further Israeli withdrawals from the territories Israel occupied...
From its start in Oslo several years ago, the entire peace process has been premised on separating Israelis and Palestinians by creating a Palestinian state on territory currently controlled by Israel. While that basic premise is accepted by both sides, they?re unable to agree over the borders of that state and over the fate of those Palestinians outside of it whose parents or grandparents once lived inside Israel itself. Now President Clinton, in the last weeks of his term, has come up with some last-minute proposals to try and engineer a breakthrough. Here are the specifics and what...
...Bush Challenge: While maintaining the U.S. commitment to help the parties find ways of coexisting, the Bush administration may be inclined to be a more distant participant in the peace process, emphasizing the need to maintain stability. The new administration may remember that the Oslo Accord took shape during the last Bush administration, with very little direct involvement by the U.S. And, of course, wider U.S. interests in the region from oil prices to Iraq policy require that Washington do some work in rebuilding relations with moderate Arab regimes. Which may mean the Bush campaign promise to move...