Word: wye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wye Memorandum cannot be understood except in the context of the Oslo Accords which preceded it. The Accords were to be the actualization of the "land for peace" model which many thought would culminate in a Palestinian state. But in fact, the Accords set the framework for a very limited Palestinian autonomy, delegating to the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) the dirty job of monitoring the activities of Palestinians and suppressing Palestinian struggle for true self-determination and human rights. Worst, the Accords gave the P.A. very little ability to improve the life conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza...
...Oslo Accords, coupled with the Wye Memorandum, give the Palestinian Authority some of the trappings of a state, such as the right to issue stamps and the right to have a television station but denies the P.A. important rights of a state, including control over land and water, the right to make decisions about immigration and even the ability to create a healthy democratic atmosphere...
Furthermore, the Memorandum stipulates that the CIA shall be closely involved with the P.A. in implementing security measures, thus ensuring for the United States an imperial outpost in the West Bank and Gaza at the expense of any real Palestinian sovereignty. Finally, the Oslo Accords and the Wye Agreement virtually ensure that refugees, Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied Arab East Jerusalem and Palestinians living inside the Jewish state will remain dispossessed...
...Wye Memorandum itself poses serious threats to the fundamental human rights of the Palestinians of the area, specifically the right to free speech and association, the right to a fair trial and the right not to be tortured. The Memorandum's disproportionate emphasis on the Palestinian Authority's "security obligations" to the state of Israel relegates Palestinian rights to an afterthought. In a place where Palestinian homes are still summarily demolished and their land casually expropriated if a household member is even suspected to be linked to an act of violence, the lack of an explicit mention of the human...
Like the Oslo Accords before it, the Wye Memorandum delays discussion of such pressing issues as the status of Jerusalem and the settlements. Last Monday, Israel began to expand the settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, a West Bank Palestinian city with a small presence of Israeli Jews. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also given the go-ahead on an extremely controversial Jewish settlement in Ras Al-Amoud in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem. Over the past 10 years, the Israeli government has implemented settlement plans that have drastically altered the population of East Jerusalem, which...