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...little has changed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the past six years. Like his predecessor Ariel Sharon, Olmert respectfully endorsed President Bush's "roadmap" to a two-state peace. He even accepted the President's urging - despite his obvious skepticism - to exhaust all possibilities of reaching a negotiated settlement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas before embarking on his unilateral plans to redraw boundaries between Israel and the Palestinians. But, like Sharon, Olmert has little faith in the prospect of negotiations; just last Sunday he made clear that he sees Abbas as a lame duck who is unable to deliver...
...Olmert was elected on a promise to move ahead with or without the Palestinians on his "convergence" plan, which would withdraw some of the outlying settlements in the West Bank while consolidating Israel's grip on the largest settlement blocs and unilaterally setting a new boundary between Israel and the Palestinians. While President Bush offered a lukewarm endorsement, suggesting that Olmert's plan "could lead to a two-state solution," he made clear that the U.S. preference is for that goal to be reached via negotiations. And the two sides appear to have agreed to repackage the proposals to avoid...
...Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout. Sharon's exit from Gaza, whereby Israel withdrew to its 1967 border, was a move welcomed throughout the international community. But in the West Bank, Olmert's intention, revealed by the route of the security wall Israel is building, is to fold in huge settlement blocs on land occupied in 1967, bisecting the West Bank and cutting it off from East Jerusalem, as well as possibly maintaining an Israeli military corridor along the Jordan Valley. Whatever their internal disagreements, Palestinian leaders would easily agree on rejecting Olmert...
When Philip Batty first came to Papunya, he was met with an almost utopian vision. It was 1977, and Batty had come to work as an art teacher at the government settlement in Central Australia; to his joy, artists had taken over the town, some even gathering in his front yard to paint. "There were few places in Papunya that had front lawns and I inherited the policeman's house," recalls Batty, now senior curator for Central Australian Collections at Museum Victoria. "And people like Clifford Possum and Johnny Warangkula used to come around and paint." He was met with...
...Collaboration is the cornerstone of Aboriginal art practice, and nowhere was this more apparent than at Papunya, 250 dirt kilometers west of Alice Springs. Around the same time as the Yirrkala people were presenting their bark petition to parliament, hundreds of desert nomads were gathering at the settlement as part of the government's assimilation policy. Far from their Pintupi, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Luritja homelands, the Papunya mob were caught in "the agony of exile," Perkins has written. Driving his VW into town in 1971, Sydney art teacher Geoffrey Bardon wasn't thinking of starting a revolution. But by encouraging...