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Eight years ago on the White House lawn, the P.L.O. signed the Oslo accords, pledging peace, nonviolence and a negotiated settlement of differences with Israel. Seventeen months ago, the Palestinians tore up Oslo and began the savage guerrilla war now convulsing the Middle East...
...never met, he joined a class action against 200 companies that made or distributed asbestos or products made with it. At the time, the only detail that really seemed to matter was that the lawyers were giving Huber a shot at what would become a $140 million settlement...
...comment not only tracks with the Bush administration's own hands-off approach to the Middle East conflict; it's a sharper reiteration of a point President Bush made on the campaign trail and after - that the U.S. should refrain from forcing the pace or imposing a settlement...
...Fleischer's statement suggests that some in the Bush administration believe peace can be achieved in the West Bank and Gaza prior to, and separately from moves toward a political settlement. That's dangerous, because it ignores the reality that the violence is not separate from the political conflict between Israelis and Palestinians - it's an expression of that conflict. Arafat urges his followers to fight until they have won a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. Sharon warned this week that no peace talks can occur until the Palestinians had been "badly beaten" and were ready to accept...
...fight this war alone" and that he does "not believe that the war on terrorism applies to Iran and Iraq"--but refused to say whether Saudi Arabia would support a U.S. attack on Baghdad. Translation: he might, but he's going to insist that in return America secure a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians...