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...occupation that paradoxically saved the PLO. While Israeli military actions had driven the leadership from Lebanon to Tunisia and roundly defeated its terrorism and guerrilla campaigns launched abroad, the Palestinians under occupation were a fount of renewal for the nationalist movement. The four-year intifada waged in the West Bank and Gaza ultimately forced Israel to a political reckoning with Arafat, and the Oslo accords. And despite its near-total collapse, the Oslo peace process has profoundly altered the terms of battle over the West Bank and Gaza...
...official status in Israeli-Palestinian agreements, it will be politically difficult for the prime minister, who has sworn to keep Arafat's authority out of Jerusalem, to return the building. And yet that's exactly what everyone from President Bush on down is insisting that he does. The PLO has moved to initiate a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the issue, which despite U.S. and Israeli objections could reinforce calls for the deployment of international monitors in the West Bank and Gaza...
...Indeed, the Israeli prime minister finds himself in the unusual position of having to restrain hawks in his cabinet and security forces (as well as his challenger for the party leadership, Benjamin Netanyahu) who are urging an all-out offensive designed to destroy the Palestinian Authority and force the PLO leadership back into exile. Sharon knows this would seriously jeopardize Israel's international position, and could even irrevocably destabilize its relations with its Arab neighbors. And the result would simply be to clear the playing field of those Palestinian leaders who had originally championed the peace process and have been...
...intifada persists, the more remote becomes his cherished Palestinian state - and his own relevance to the future of his people. His own diplomatic and political standing today, and the very raison d'?tre of the power structure atop which he sits, has been the peace process and turning the PLO from a liberation movement into a government. Without the promise of achieving a viable state through negotiation, he has very little to offer Palestinians in exchange for cooperating with the Israelis. And it's that awareness that helps explain his skittish shuttling between declaring jihad and declaring cease-fires...
DIED. FAISAL HUSSEINI, 60, leading PLO official in Jerusalem and peace advocate who pushed for a city open to both Israelis and Palestinians; of a heart attack; in Kuwait. Often mentioned as Yasser Arafat's possible successor, Husseini mastered Hebrew as an Israeli political prisoner in the 1980s and played an integral role in the landmark 1991 Madrid peace conference...