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August 23, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief2-6.htm

Starting Over After Oslo

(Jerusalem Issue Brief - Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Gerald M. Steinberg - The optimistic assumptions and mechanisms that guided Palestinian-Israeli negotiations under the "Oslo" process proved unrealistic and fatally flawed. This failure - as reflected in two years of Palestinian terrorism, the catastrophic leadership of the Palestinian Authority, and the realization that the rejection of Israel as a Jewish state remains the core of the conflict - has fundamentally changed the framework for negotiations. Under these conditions, it is entirely unrealistic and counterproductive to use the concepts and parameters of the Oslo process, the Camp David summit, or the Taba talks as the basis for any new Middle East peace effort.

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