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...Fast forward three years to the implementation of the Oslo Accord, and Yasser Arafat comes home, bringing with him a leadership corps from exile and setting up the Palestinian Authority as envisaged by the accord. But the top positions in Arafat's administration all went to returning exiles and Arafat cronies, while the local leaders who'd earned their stripes and scars in the heat of the intifada, and often did time in jail for it, were mostly overlooked or incorporated in subordinate roles in the Palestinian Authority. In many cases, it is those same shunned local leaders...
...Israel has fully withdrawn from the West Bank and Gaza. Implicit in the current violence, therefore, is a power struggle within Palestinian ranks. And with Arafat aging and ailing and his immediate aides unable to command the loyalty of the streets, there's little cause for optimism that the Oslo Accord will be revived...
...Oslo accord the Israelis and Palestinians signed was supposed to set in motion a peace process with interim agreements that would bring an end to these violent eruptions. What happened? Is there a weakness in the peace process that you didn't anticipate...
...There has been [a debate] as to what the value has been in the interim agreements [signed since Oslo]. There are those who thought they would provide the lubricant for permanent status [negotiations] because they were going to be able to work out simpler problems before they got to the really difficult issues. It was evident last summer that instead of being a lubricant it looked more like sandpaper, and that it made sense to move to the permanent status issues. We did that because we were concerned about the violence. But I think that there...
...government with the right-wing Likud party. Going back to the negotiating table right now may not suit either side, even though they may work to keep channels open in order to ensure that the low-level shooting war doesn?t spin out of control. Seven years after the Oslo Accord, the reality on the West Bank and Gaza remains Israeli occupation and Palestinian intifadah. But now, as then, it?s a contest that neither side can really win by force, and at some point they?ll be forced to start talking again. But a lot more blood...