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Arafat came out of the negotiations at Wye Plantation three weeks ago a happy man. For the Palestinians, the main issue had been how much more of the West Bank Israel would turn over to self-rule. Though Palestinian officials, who currently practice limited autonomy in 30% of the West Bank, thought they deserved another 30%, Arafat, as part of a strategic decision to get closer to the U.S., agreed last spring to an American compromise: 13%. Though ideologically opposed to withdrawing from any part of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of the right-wing Likud, finally...
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...
Saddam Hussein appears to have succeeded where Madeleine Albright failed -- in getting Israel's cabinet to endorse the Wye peace accord. After days of stonewalling, Benjamin Netanyahu suddenly pushed approval of the Wye agreement through his cabinet late Wednesday, following a Tuesday night phone call from President Clinton. "It certainly helped that the Americans are poised to bomb Iraq," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The Israelis couldn't afford to be the reason that Washington was being given a hard time from Arab countries over action against Saddam...
...also crucial to consider the conspicuous lack of accommodation of Palestinian refugees (64 percent of the total Palestinian population) or Palestinians living in Israel in both the Oslo Accords and the Wye Memorandum. Many Palestinians living in other places in the Arab world are still living as refugees in camps, deprived of citizenship and its benefits, often disproportionately impoverished. In Lebanon, where Palestinians have not been incorporated into the state because their large numbers are seen as a threat to the delicate balance of religious groups, Palestinians from the Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, which holds 350,000 Palestinians, have...
...destructive implications regarding human rights, for the scant amount of land it transfers to the Palestinian Authority and for its failure to tackle central issues such as refugees, the Wye Memorandum is an inadequate and even dangerous agreement. As the growing resistance to Arafat from within the Palestinian Authority shows, an unjust peace simply will not be stable. We can only hope that after this peace process crumbles, as it almost inevitably will, a new one will begin that truly recognizes the needs and rights of all parties involved. Waqaas S. Fahmawi '99 is a government concentrator in Kirkland House...