Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delegation shocked U.S. negotiators with demands to reopen several agreements that had been tied up in the Oslo accords. "They put all sorts of outrageous proposals on the table," says a U.S. official. "They were not negotiating in good faith." Among the outrageous points was a call for the Palestinians to hand over for trial members of their security forces who fired at Israelis during the rioting. Netanyahu told TIME later that Arafat had insisted that the Palestinian policemen who opened fire were acting against his orders. Then they should be investigated, Netanyahu countered. Says Netanyahu: "Arafat said he would...
...very diplomatic. As a Palestinian, I think she would have loved to say a lot more, but within the confines of politics she can't," said local architect Omar F. Albadri...
...seems to me that the present instability in Israel has much more to do with the Palestinians' capitalizing on an opportunity to undermine the present Israeli government than with any serious or forseeable misstep on the part of the government itself. The Palestinians are discontent because Israel under Netanyahu is now, for the first time in the history of the peace process, insisting that they honor the agreements they have made--something that they are are clearly unwilling to do--and so, in order to divert attention from this in the eyes of the world media, they are shamelessly exploiting...
...reportage and propaganda that reaches us also glosses over the fact that not only did Palestinian leaders fail to discourage violent activity (Palestinian Cabinet Minister Hanan Ashrawi was even quoted in the Boston Globe as saying that "it would be impossible and irresponsible" to call on demonstrators to stop throwing stones and shooting at Israelis), but Palestinian police, who are supposed to be under the control of the civilian authority and thus at least nominally in the position of enforcing the peace, were also taking aim at Israeli soldiers. What can we make of that...
...more importantly, what is Netanyahu to do? The Palestinians are eager to make him look bad; the American press is eager to buy into the Palestinian account of things. And our President and State Department, who have no great fondness for Netanyahu to begin with, can do nothing but pressure him to take impossible actions to preserve the impression during an election year that their own simple-minded policies have somehow succeeded in bringing peace to the Middle East. If he does nothing, he will hardly be advancing the peace process in the eyes of Israelis or Palestinians...