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Banging Square Pegs Into Round Holes

December 24, 2008 | Amb. Dore Gold

Throughout 2008, U.S. mediation on the outlines of a settlement were once again the equivalent of banging a square peg into a round hole: the territorial demands of the Palestinian leadership did not fit into the territorial space Israel could afford to vacate without compromising its minimal security needs as well as its most important historical rights, especially in Jerusalem.

Nelly Sayagh on La Guerre d’Oslo

March 1, 2006 | Nelly Sayagh

The Oslo War La Guerre d’Oslo, by Joel Fishman and Efraim Karsh, Editions de Passy, 257 pp. (French) Reviewed by Nelly Sayagh

Starting Over After Oslo

August 22, 2002 | Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg

The optimistic assumptions and mechanisms that guided Palestinian-Israeli negotiations under the "Oslo" process proved unrealistic and fatally flawed. This failure is reflected in two years of Palestinian terrorism and the catastrophic leadership of the Palestinian Authority. The realization that the core of the conflict remains the rejection of Israel as a Jewish state has fundamentally changed the framework for negotiations.

A New Diplomacy . . .

October 17, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold

Reshuffled Deck on Syrian-Israeli Negotiations

June 12, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold

No Security, No Peace

March 29, 1997 | Amb. Dore Gold