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By Ofira Seliktar
This ground-breaking ebook examines how and why the much-vaunted Oslo Peace Accords among the Israelis and Palestinians collapsed. the writer analyzes the avid gamers on either side of the accords, mentioning the attitudes and activities that serve to undermine peace and advertise clash.
On the only hand, she criticizes the Islamist organisations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for no longer tolerating the belief of any actual long term peace with Israel. nonetheless, she scrutinizes the factions for and opposed to Oslo that constructed inside of Israeli executive circles, and she or he calls into query the power of Israeli intelligence to properly examine the Palestinian negotiators.
By technique of such exam, this e-book poses a primary query: Can Islamic fundamentalism ever settle for the life of Israel or will it short-circuit any prospect of peace among majority-Muslim states and their non-Muslim counterparts?
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Al Agha was a member of Fatah’s Central Committee and served on the PLO’s Executive Committee. According to Ashrawi, there was ‘‘total coordination’’ between the Palestinians who participated in the Washington rounds of talks—a follow-up to the Madrid conference—and Arafat via telephone calls, fax, and secret visits. Worse, Arafat, in an effort to control the process, constantly interfered with the negotiations, much to the annoyance of the Palestinian delegation. ’’ Edward P. ’’31 Much as the administration was exasperated with the Palestinians, it was Shamir who provoked most of its ire.
Before being sold to the right-leaning Hollinger Group in 1990, the Histadrut-owned Post, under Ari Rath and Erwin Frenkel, was in tune with the peace activists and eager to provide a platform for their views. Landau, who left the Post in protest, eventually became the editor of Haaretz where his support for Oslo was unflagging. In 2008 Landau made news after confessing that it was ‘‘his wet dream’’ to see the United States ‘‘rape’’ Israeli into making peace with the Palestinians. 48 By opting to portray Arafat and the PLO as rational actors dedicated to peace, the CR community and ripeness theorists either ignored or glossed over much of the reality in the territories.
5–7 percent tax on Palestinian works in Arab countries; charitable donations from wealthy Palestinians; income from investments; and criminal activities such as drug and arms trafficking and ‘‘extortion–protection’’ schemes. In 1990 the CIA estimated PLO’s wealth at $8–10 billion, a figure close THE ROAD TO OSLO: THE TRIUMPH OF THE NEW MIDDLE EAST PARADIGM 29 to that of the British National Investigative Service. However, due to mismanagement and corruption, by the early 1990s, much of the PLO’s financial empire was said to be in tatters.