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Originally posted by SLM3
I was referring to the Oslo agreements. Taba was unofficial and quickly tucked away by the Israelis. Beyond its symbolic value, it's useless. Why focus on talks that had no binding on an Israeli government, especially one that was about to be formed around a leader who was explicitly against Taba to begin with?
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What do you mean that it was non-binding and informal? They were official govt talks with an official Israeli propsal that Arafat initially called embarassing. If it was good enough for him to change his mind after pondering it for 18 months then he deserves the scorn gets. He could have turned the Israeli election into a referendum
on ending the conflict.
He chose not to and turned down a resloution with no cantons and with half of Jerusalem as a new capital, something that not even 1948 Palestine was going to have.