Word: israelism
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Situation Report: The Oslo Peace process has essentially collapsed, and Israel and the Palestinians now coexist in a state of low-intensity warfare, even if their leaders continue to discuss the hypotheticals of peace. The breakdown that began with Camp David may have set the peace process back years, and Israel appears poised to elect another right-wing government committed to hitting the rewind button while Palestinian public opinion hardens against compromises with Israel. Moreover, the moderate Arab regimes on which Washington has traditionally relied to provide political cover for Arafat are themselves under increasing domestic pressure to distance themselves...
...over Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif (called the Temple Mount by Jews) while the Israelis would have sovereignty over the Western Wall (the only remaining piece of the Second Temple). The proposal also calls for the resettlement of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Palestinian-controlled land rather than in Israel. And so Barak went back to Jerusalem to huddle with his cabinet and security chiefs, and Arafat went off to Cairo by himself...
...Barak has already signaled that he was game if Arafat was, and Wednesday declared the proposals acceptable to Israel as a "basis for discussion" with the Palestinians...
...Which is what Arafat is doing in Cairo - trying to get the Arab world to lean on Israel (and the U.S.) and help him cut a better deal...
...agreement between Palestinians and Israelis that may be related to the issue of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon without Lebanon being party to the agreement." Of course that means Syria has to come too - and Thursday the mouthpiece Syria Times nixed the proposals too. The plan "delivers (to Israel) its longtime goal of annexing portions of Palestinian lands and depriving refugees of their right to return to their homes and villages...