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...however, is dead set against that; if he has his way, autonomy is all the Palestinians will ever achieve. Neither his reluctant summit with Arafat last month nor the subsequent follow-up meetings produced any progress toward the expansion of Palestinian authority in the West Bank promised in the Oslo accords. Says a senior Western diplomat in Israel: "The Israelis talk the talk, but nothing changes on the ground." Adds Khaled al-Qidrah, Arafat's attorney-general: "The behavior of the Israeli side is killing this agreement...
Tadros and Al-Ississ claim that "the current move violates Israeli assurances under the Oslo Accords that no changes will be made in the disputed city until final status negotiations are concluded." Israel's actions in no way violate the Oslo Accords. Article I of the Interim Agreement, Oslo II, states that Israel shall continue to exercise exclusive power and responsibilities over Jerusalem. There are no prohibitions in the Accords against Israeli archaelogical maneuvers anywhere in Jerusalem...
...called "inability" to restrain the enemies of peace. Original fears that the Palestinian security forces were not adequately equipped to deal with their own extremists have been substituted for the more worrisome concern that they are, in some cases, members of such groups. As the opponents of Oslo have long claimed, this has the explosive and dangerous potential to create true Palestinian unity amongst countless fundamentalist fringe groups. Until now the disunity of these extremists has been an extra card in the hand of the true seekers of peace...
...impossibility of confiscating the Palestinians' weapons, should that need ever have arisen? In the wake of the latest events, this appears to be an increasingly likely and favorable option. Such an effort, however, would be tremendously complicated by the proliferation of weapons which has resulted from the shortsighted Oslo plan. I, for one, find it difficult to picture 40,000 Palestinian policemen meekly handing over their assault rifles for any reason whatsoever. How many lives would be lost in the war that would result from trying to take those weapons back? Perhaps this was one of the more thorny issues...
Many Israelis were duped into accepting the ill-founded and sacrificial Oslo Accords. The Palestinians should not count on it happening again when it comes to negotiations over Jerusalem. Polls show that on the subject of their capital, Israelis are united. Moreover, the Israelis are likely to be doubly cautious since the latest violence has revealed some of their peace partners to be wolves dressed in sheep's clothing. Israel was forced by the Clinton administration, with the rest of the world community in tow, to arm its enemy to the hilt. The rules of logic dictated that such...