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...petition drawn up by students at the University of Pretoria, "show contempt for history." But a name change, says the mayor, is backed by many of Pretoria's black residents, who resent living in a city named for Andries Pretorius, a leader of the Afrikaners' march of settlement. Here's a look at other South African places where new names have been adopted or proposed. - By Simon Robinson...
...newly occupied territories remained under Israeli military rule. But ultranationalist Israelis saw the occupation as an opportunity to stake a claim on land inhabited by Palestinians that fell on the Biblical maps of the Land of Israel. Mindful of the danger that settlements would preclude a land-for-peace swap, the ruling Labor Party did not encourage settlement, and a decade later only 7,000 Israelis were living in the West Bank...
...leadership brokered a truce agreement under which they would refrain from attacking Israel in exchange for prisoner releases and other concessions. Yasser Arafat remained very much in charge of the PA despite U.S. efforts to sideline him. And Israel confined itself to mostly token gestures in respect of settlement outposts, reversible military withdrawals from a couple of Palestinian areas and the release of a couple of hundred of the 6,000 Palestinian militants currently in Israeli prisons. (The prisoner issue is not actually covered by the ?roadmap,? but it is essential to the ?hudna? truce among the Palestinian militant groups...
...Things changed when the Likud Party took power in 1977. The new government was committed to settling masses of Jews in the occupied territories in order to seal Israel?s grip on territory it regarded as part of the Land of Israel. At the center of Likud?s settlement policy was its Agriculture Minister - Ariel Sharon. And Sharon made clear in the 1970s, and again in the 90s when he set out to challenge the Oslo process, that the purpose of settlements was to create "facts on the ground" that would impede the surrender of the occupied territories by Israel...
...South Korean Foreign Minister Yoon Young Kwan has said he is expecting "a long process for settlement, rather than being too optimistic or pessimistic about the outcomes of the first round of talks." Because of the antipathy between Washington and Pyongyang, negotiations could last years. But some believe they might be over before they even begin. "I worry the Americans are only negotiating to show they tried diplomacy but wouldn't mind seeing the talks break down," says Zhang Tuosheng, director of research at the Foundation for International Strategic Studies in Beijing. Ultimately, Zhang fears, the Bush Administration wants...