Word: palestinians
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...latest agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority contains few new commitments, but rather fresh promises to honor old concessions on both sides...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to allow the Palestinians full control over 13 percent of the West Bank and to release 750 convicted Palestinian prisoners...
...Failed the Palestinians (Opinion, November 10): In discussing the Oslo Accords, Amahl A. Bishara and Waqaas S. Fahmawi charge that the Accords do not allow for true Palestinian autonomy. Instead, they say, the Accords delegate to the Palestinian Authority "the dirty job of monitoring the activities of Palestinians and suppressing Palestinian struggle for true self-determination and human rights...
This is a troubling characterization of the daily maintenance of a potential Palestine. One hopes that those who would like to see a Palestinian state would take a more positive view toward the most basic elements of statehood. The running of day-to-day affairs and the regulation of citizens' activities ought to stand at the heart of any nationalist aspirations, and not be viewed as "dirty work...
...From this point of view, self-determination requires a certain amount of careful self-monitoring, one might say "suppression," of the violent strains within such a movement. Once again, this sort of watchfulness must not be seen as a toilsome burden. As a nationalist movement fighting for statehood, the Palestinian Authority must accept both these responsibilities. It ought not to see these tasks in the onerous light which Bishara and Fahmawi cast on them. November...