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...find it very difficult to refuse raises to outsourced workers. For the students sitting in, the issue is even more pressing. Reading period can provide a crucial opportunity for students to make up missed work and pass their classes without bringing an educational crisis on the University. Delaying a settlement will increase the difficulty facing the students without changing the result...
...Israel certainly has plenty of reason for skepticism, even if not all of its reservations would be acceptable to the United States - Israel rejects a blanket freeze on settlement expansion, for example, but the U.S. has never been sympathetic to Israel's efforts to build settlements on the West Bank and Gaza. But Peres is on firmer ground when questioning what concrete and verifiable steps Arafat would be required to make to reduce violence. Arafat's political authority in the West Bank and Gaza is clearly not what it was even a year ago, when no one dared publicly question...
Fisher brokered a settlement between Egypt and Israel over the Sinai Peninsula, conducted negotiations workshops with both the African National Congress and President deKlerk's cabinet in South Africa, helped deal with the American hostage situation in Iran in 1980, and ended a decades long conflict over a disputed border between Peru and Ecuador...
...plan requires that Israel withdraw its troops from around Palestinian towns and cities, while the Palestinian Authority takes concrete steps to stop attacks on Israelis from areas under its control. The two sides would resume security cooperation, and Israel would lift its blockade on Palestinian areas and freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza. After four weeks, if the cease-fire holds, the two sides would resume political negotiations where they were left off with the Barak administration...
...question of how Palestinian attacks will be ended is only one flaw in the proposal. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has instructed Peres to make clear Israel has problems with a blanket freeze on settlement activity. He's also questioning the four-week timetable, proposing a three-month cooling off period before talks. But most important, Sharon has made abundantly clear that he has no intention of negotiating on the basis of offers made by Ehud Barak. Sharon considers the Oslo peace process over, and wants to negotiate a series of long-term interim non-belligerency agreements with the Palestinians...