Word: standoff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ground the situation threatens to deteriorate. Even as the standoff continues, international aid organizations are expressing alarm over the humanitarian impact of the Israeli offensive on the Palestinian civilian population. The Palestinian Authority's ability to provide the basic services of a civil authority in the West Bank appears to have been critically impaired, if not destroyed. And "Operation Defensive Shield" has destroyed to much of the Palestinian Authority's security apparatus, on whose enforcement powers any cease-fire would rest. The Israelis are unlikely to tolerate a power vacuum in towns they characterize as hotbeds of terrorism, and that...
...Many commentators in the region had expected an uptick in violence following the departure of the Secretary of State, who left in his wake what the Israeli daily Haaretz called "a dangerous vacuum" - no substantial movement toward ending the current violent standoff in the West Bank, and vague talk about a regional peace conference that has been skeptically received on both sides of the divide. Powell's efforts to reassure Washington's Arab allies of America's bona fides as a peace broker weren't helped by President Bush's remarks Thursday certifying that Ariel Sharon was in compliance with...
...Noted "If I mention one death here, do I mention the other death there? Where do you end? Blood only brings blood." PRINCE SAUD AL FAISAL, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, on the continuing standoff between Israel and the Palestinians...
...There's nothing new in this standoff over truce terms. The Mitchell Report, on which the current U.S. cease-fire efforts are partly based, noted: "Israeli leaders do not wish to be perceived as 'rewarding violence.' Palestinian leaders do not wish to be perceived as 'rewarding occupation.' Nevertheless, if the cycle of violence is to be broken and the search for peace resumed, there needs to be a new bilateral relationship incorporating both security cooperation and negotiations...
...bloodletting of the past 18 months is increasingly acknowledged as the product of the stalled Oslo peace process, which created an armed Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza, yet failed to deliver the promised peace of a "two-state" solution. Israelis are unanimous that the present standoff is untenable, but they're sharply divided over whether the way out is to complete the political separation into two states, or to forcefully reverse much of what Oslo created...