Word: wye
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Several Harvard professors are pessimistic about the chance for peace in the Middle East--despite the signing of the Wye River Memorandum on October...
...Wye Failed the Palestinians (Opinion, November 10): In discussing the Oslo Accords, Amahl A. Bishara and Waqaas S. Fahmawi charge that the Accords do not allow for true Palestinian autonomy. Instead, they say, the Accords delegate to the Palestinian Authority "the dirty job of monitoring the activities of Palestinians and suppressing Palestinian struggle for true self-determination and human rights...
Arafat has clamped down on Hamas before, but its activists sense that this time is more serious, not least because the CIA is lending a hand, putting its own prestige and officers on the line. Says "Amin," a member of the military wing: "We believe the meeting in Wye had just one goal: liquidating Hamas." In the past, Arafat has arrested Hamas men and then quietly released many through what the Israelis complained was a "revolving door." With the CIA watching, that door may finally stop spinning...
While the Wye agreement asks P.A. security officials to respect human rights, neither the Israelis nor the Americans expect that they will, which will turn up the heat on Arafat even further. Says "Omar," an activist in the military wing of Hamas: "We cannot let Arafat's dogs beat us and eat us, and do nothing. What do you expect of us? That we turn the other cheek?" Adds a colleague, "Ali": "We have reached the conclusion that preaching about national unity is not going to achieve anything. We have to do it the way others did, in Sudan, Afghanistan...
...after the end of the Gulf standoff, and Bibi Netanyahu has a new excuse for delaying implementation of the Wye agreement. The Israeli leader on Monday suspended Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank until Yasser Arafat drops his long-standing plan to declare a Palestinian state next May. Netanyahu had found a number of reasons to delay implementation of the deal over the past month, but Washington's need for Arab support on the Iraq crisis -- articulated by President Clinton in a Tuesday-night phone call to Netanyahu -- created the pressure for him to secure the necessary cabinet vote...