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...Oslo peace process began eight years ago. Where was Abdullah during the prime ministerships of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres? And, most crucially, where was Abdullah just 19 months ago, when the most dovish leader in Israel's history, Ehud Barak, offered an astonishingly generous peace at Camp David, and the Saudis, begged by President Clinton to weigh in with Arafat on the side of peace, did nothing of the sort...
...last person to kiss Yitzhak Rabin came to Harvard two Sundays ago. The man who embraced the Israeli prime minister just minutes before his assassination is no politician and no general, but Israel’s foremost rockstar, Aviv Geffen. What’s strange, though, is that Geffen could just as easily have spoken at the Institute of Politics as performed at Paine Hall. This antiestablishment preacher of peace is as political as they come...
...Sharon is a warmonger. He has made it clear that he will only make peace on his own terms, and that his own terms do not include compromise. Despite his reluctant avowal that a Palestinian state might be acceptable, he has single-handedly undone the work of the late Yitzhak Rabin. Even if Sharon wanted to negotiate, few Palestinians would take him seriously. After all, it was Sharon who ignited the present conflict in Sept. 2000 when he visited a Muslim holy site with 1,000 armed soldiers. But hatred toward Sharon stems primarily from his role...
...world around them, very little has changed in relations between Israelis and Palestinians. Except, perhaps, in the incentives for resuming dialogue, and the disincentives for failing to do so. It is worth remembering, though, that it was not domestic epiphany that led to that historic White House handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat - the Oslo peace process began, originally, in response to international pressure in the wake of the Gulf War. And in light of the changing world situation, the dependence of both sides on international backing may well eventually force Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table...
...Arab sensitivities, there's nothing particularly new about it - a de facto a recognition of the Palestinians' right to statehood has undergirded both U.S. and Israeli policy in the last decade. President Clinton explicitly endorsed the principle late last year, while Israel's last two Labor Party prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak, implicitly accepted it as a basis for the Oslo peace process with the Palestinians. Oslo was based on the premise of a "two-state" solution to the half-century of conflict. At Camp David, Israelis and Palestinians were not negotiating over whether there would...