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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Win Smith who wrote (2447)10/3/2001 9:55:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
This reporter displays an amazing ignorance of the history of the Oslo negotiations.

"The Diera was built after Yasir Arafat returned to Gaza in July 1994 to set up the Palestinian Authority under the terms of the Oslo peace agreement. His limited rule was, most hoped, meant to lead to a two-state solution. The assassination of the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin scuttled any chance of that.

Over the last seven years Arafat has become isolated and unpopular, largely because the promised economic improvements and freedoms have not materialized. Only his refusal to accept the mutated statelets offered to him at Camp David has saved him from complete pillory."

He implies that Rabin was going to offer something better than Barak's 'mutated statelet' offer at Camp David. There is NO evidence of this in anything Rabin ever said, publically or privately. The consensus is that Rabin was going to offer 50% or thereabouts, while Barak offered 95%. And Arafat never made a counter offer.

This guy has also adapted Palestinian explanations for everything. Could the failure of improvements to materialize in the West Bank just possibly have anything to do with the PA's extreme corruption and its failure to establish rule of law in areas under its control? Maybe, just maybe, not everything is the fault of the Jews?
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