The prospects are dim but the process is right. The Obama administration is to be commended for structuring the latest rounds of Middle East talks correctly. Finally, we're leaving behind interim agreements, of which the most lamentable were the Oslo accords of 1993. The logic then was that issues so complicated could only be addressed step by step in the expectation that things get easier over time. In fact, they got harder. Israel made concrete concessions - bringing in Yasser Arafat to run the West Bank and Gaza- in return for which Israel received growing threats, continuous incitement and finally a full-scale terror war that killed more than a thousand innocent Israelis.
WASHINGTON -- The prospects are dim but the process is right. The Obama administration is to be commended for structuring the latest rounds of Middle East talks correctly. Finally, we're leaving behind interim agreements, of which the most lamentable were the Oslo accords of 1993. The logic then was that issues so complicated could only be addressed step by step in the expectation that things get easier over time. In fact, they got harder. Israel made concrete concessions -- bringing in Yasser Arafat to run the West Bank and Gaza -- in return for which Israel received growing threats, continuous incitement and finally a full-scale terror war that killed more than a thousand innocent Israelis.
Israel, she continued, has all the aspects of a rogue state: it ignores agreements and international law, such as the International Court of Justice ruling that the wall is illegal and the agreement Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brokered guaranteeing Gazans freedom of movement. Churches became involved in considering divestment from companies profiting from the Israeli occupation when, in 2002, a National Council of Churches delegation visited the Jenin refugee camp soon after Israel's invasion and saw the destruction. Davidson agreed that divestment and boycott movements are expressions of longstanding frustration with the inability or unwillingness of governments to force Israel to stop its ongoing destruction of Palestinian society.\n By signing the 1993 Oslo accords, Massad ...
WASHINGTON - The prospects are dim but the process is right. The Obama administration is to be commended for structuring the latest rounds of Middle East talks correctly. Finally, we're leaving behind interim agreements, of which the most lamentable were the Oslo accords of 1993.
THE prospects are dim, but the process is right. The Obama administration is to be commended for structuring the latest rounds of Middle East talks correctly. Finally, we're leaving behind interim agreements, of which the most lamentable were the Oslo accords of 1993. The logic then was that issues so complicated could only be addressed step by step in the expectation that things get easier over time. In fact, they got harder. Israel made concrete concessions -- bringing in Yasser Arafat to run the West Bank and Gaza -- in return for which Israel received growing threats, continuous incitement and finally a full-scale terror war that killed more than a thousand innocent Israelis. Among the victims was the Israeli peace movement and its illusions about Palestinian acceptance of Israel. T...
Whether the report is fully, partially or not at all accurate, the fact remains that Israel's key objective in engaging Syria is to further isolate Hamas and to deny its leadership safe haven. Syria opened its doors to several Palestinian factions, which have operated politically with a degree of unison, following the September 1993 Oslo Accords. The relationship between Syria and Hamas in particular was often scrutinized as a Syrian bargaining chip in any future negotiations with Israel over the fate of the Golan. It is no secret that Israel will not transfer the Golan back to its rightful owner if Hamas and other Palestinian groups continue to use Damascus as their headquarters, a platform of political freedom and a degree of legitimacy. This is an issue that even Hamas itself doesnlt...
The prospects are dim but the process is right. The Obama administration is to be commended for structuring the latest rounds of Middle East talks correctly. Finally, we're leaving behind interim agreements, of which the most lamentable were the Oslo accords of 1993. The logic then was that issues so complicated could only be addressed step by step in the expectation that things get easier over time. In fact, they got harder. Israel made concrete concessions -- bringing in Yasser Arafat to run the West Bank and Gaza -- in return for which Israel received growing threats, continuous incitement and finally a full-scale terror war that killed more than 1,000 innocent Israelis.
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- A new Palestinian parliament dominated by the militant group Hamas was installed here Saturday, and immediately, President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas lawmakers set out on a collision course over the need to honor existing agreements with Israel and conduct negotiations to achieve Palestinian statehood. In a speech to new lawmakers at his headquarters in Ramallah, Abbas congratulated Hamas on its victory but warned the legislature that it could not disavow agreements and commitments by the Palestinian leadership dating back to the late 1980s. Those include U.N. resolutions and the 1993 Oslo accords, ratified by the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization, that commit the Palestinians to a peace solution based on an independent state side by side with Israel.
In August 1993, when regional and international actors arranged detailed peace negotiations to be enforced by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), a brokered reconciliation effort began. * The Arusha Accords were signed in August 1993; the negotiations began in July 1992. * UNAMIR's mandate was: to assist in ensuring the security of the capital city of Kigali; monitor the ceasefire agreement, including establishment of an expanded demilitarized zone and demobilization procedures; monitor the security situation during the final period of the transitional Government's mandate leading up to elections; assist with mine-clearance; and assist in the coordination of humanitarian assistance activities in conjunction with relief operations.* UNAMIR did not have an enforceme...
We mean business," chief Palestinian Authority negotiator and [Fatah] member Saeb Erekat told IPS. "There are a lot of important issues to be discussed, and it is vital that Fatah establishes a new agenda and a consensus on the path ahead. Fatah's last revolutionary council was held in exile in Tunis in 1 989. Fatah was formed in 1958, and joined the PLO in 1 967. Many Fatah members belong to the PA, which was established in the wake of the Oslo Peace Accords of 1993. Palestinian President [Mahmoud Abbas] (R) sits in front of a banner depicting the late leader Yasser Arafat as he addresses the Fatah congress in the West Bank town of Bethlehem August 4, 2009.Abbas opened his Fatah movement's first congress in 20 years on Tuesday, saying Palestinians sought peace with Israel but "resist...
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