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...Palestinian civilian police as "vigilante commandos" portray the author's desperate attempt to convince the reader that his personal judgement is the truth. The claim that Palestinian police officers fired "automatic weapons upon the Israelis who armed them" overlooks the fact that these arms were purchased under the Oslo agreement, and with Palestinian money. The images purveyed by such propaganda upholds the political axiom around which Israeli hawks, and their more poorly informed counterparts in the U.S., mobilize: We have tried peace but we can not/will not trust those who opted to fight back...
...abuses by Indonesia, East Timor has been a subject mostly for diplomatic specialists. Its exiled representatives looked in vain for support, literally knocking on doors that refused to open. And then last week East Timor was back in the headlines. The committee for the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo gave its coveted award to two men who have never ceased perpetuating their homeland's hope for self-rule. One is Jose Ramos-Horta, 46, an exiled public relations ambassador for East Timor's guerrillas, who is now based in Australia; the other is Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, 48, the Roman...
Still, the Israelis remained tough on the issues. During an all-night session at Blair House, across from the White House, the Israeli delegation shocked U.S. negotiators with demands to reopen several agreements that had been tied up in the Oslo accords. "They put all sorts of outrageous proposals on the table," says a U.S. official. "They were not negotiating in good faith." Among the outrageous points was a call for the Palestinians to hand over for trial members of their security forces who fired at Israelis during the rioting. Netanyahu told TIME later that Arafat had insisted that...
...ignoring their flagrant violations of the peace accords, such as the continued operation of illegal offices in Jerusalem--a much more serious infringement on the delicate status of the holy city, incidentally, than any entirely licit move made by Mayor Olmert. Indeed, the Palestinian Authority is barred by the Oslo Accords from establishing any official presence whatsoever in Jerusalem. Should we be so shocked, then, that the city's legitimate government is making reasonable municipal decisions without first consulting Yasser Arafat and his ministers...
...authors of the letter that was published Tuesday, in citing Israel's planned expansion of settlements and infrastructure projects in Judea and Samaria, also seem to have overlooked the fact that all of this is to take place in areas defined by the Oslo Accords as under complete and unequivocal Israeli control. As for the issue of the redeployment of IDF forces from Hebron, the recent violence should make clear to any objective observer how valid Netanyahu's concerns for the safety of the city's Jewish minority really...