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...Sharm el-Sheikh agreement, however, simply withdraws Israeli troops from the entrance to every Palestinian town. As long as they remain dotted throughout the West Bank and Gaza, protecting Jewish settlements built after 1967 that are viewed as illegal by Palestinians, the soldiers will be a magnet for Palestinian rage. That fact has suited Arafat these past three weeks because it has given him leverage to counter pressure from the U.S. and Israel to sign away Palestinian claims on the Temple Mount. But despite Arafat's having made his point and agreed to a cease-fire, his political authority, even...
Oral agreements, as the saying goes, are worth about as much as the paper on which they're written. And in the case of the cease-fire agreed to at Sharm el-Sheikh Tuesday, the oral agreement was not one between Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak, but rather two separate agreements between each man and President Clinton. That leaves each side to interpret the agreement according to their own explanation of the current violence, and gives it at best a 50-50 chance of holding. Israel has ostensibly agreed to withdraw its army from the perimeter of most major Palestinian...
...muster the requisite political authority to stop young Palestinians from marching on their positions - and right now that's a very big "if," as not only his Islamist opposition but even much of the grassroots membership of his own Fatah organization has virulently and openly opposed the agreement at Sharm el-Sheikh - the latest agreement may only temporarily separate the combatants on each side...
...talks but refused to sign an agreement without the promise of an international commission of inquiry into the current violence. That demand was rejected by the Israeli prime minister, who then abandoned the second leg of the talks to be held Thursday in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el Sheikh...
Nasrallah: Yes, of course. I believe Grapes of Wrath was not an Israeli military operation with an American green light. It was an Israeli operation decided by America. I believe when Clinton went to Tel Aviv after Sharm el-Sheikh he took the decision for Grapes of Wrath...