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Does negotiating peace while suicide bombings continue mean you are, as some pundits and Israeli hawks have argued, rewarding terrorism? The argument doesn't hold water, but as the Bush administration attempts to re-engage with the Palestinian leadership of Yasser Arafat to broker a cease-fire it's worth examining why peace negotiations should be separated from a war on terror...
...Neither Yasser Arafat nor Ariel Sharon is a freedom-loving democrat. Both are clearly to blame for the escalation in violence. But the problem is much larger than them. It stems from Israel’s 35-year occupation of Palestinian lands. In 1967, in the third Arab-Israeli war, Israel’s army moved outside the country’s internationally recognized borders into Arab lands. The United Nations promptly told Israel to leave, pronouncing the occupation illegal. The troops still haven’t gone home. But a growing number of them are demanding just that. Perhaps...
...Jesus' birth, Israeli soldiers laid siege for four days, peppering the 1,500-year-old building with bullets and, according to those trapped inside, blowing off the rear door. Elsewhere Israeli forces rolled into the West Bank towns of Hebron, Nablus and Jenin and continued to confine Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his compound in Ramallah. As the fighting worsened President George W. Bush, the United Nations and European Union leaders called on Israel to end its retaliation for a suicide attack that killed 26 people at a Passover celebration a week earlier. Bush continued his criticism of Arafat...
...bleak the world was before the Oslo peace process began, there was still a sense that progress might be made, if only visionary leaders could emerge and guide their peoples forward into the light. Then there was Oslo, and the heroism of Yitzhak Rabin, and the apparent conversion of Yasser Arafat to the cause of peace. There were Nobel Peace prizes for all concerned, and limited sovereignty for Palestine, and the promise that there would be an end to war, because peace was the desire of both peoples...
...that the Israeli government would not allow terrorism to pass without retribution. One of the initial steps in Israel’s response to the latest spate of nail-studded explosives directed against toddlers, octogenarians, and other innocents has been to surround and hole up Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat in his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah. This move, and the military incursions into other Palestinian cities, have been met with cautions and reproach from the Arab world, Europe and now even the U.S., with Ariel Sharon receiving daily exhortations from President Bush to end the offensive...