Power Line: A fool speaks I agree that the Oslo Accords are deeply flawed in and of themselves. The one aspect of democracy, though, is that it must have soil, i.e., a fixed home, in which to take root. The power structure must be in the "homeland." The WWII Free French, Czechs, Swedes, etc. had a government outside their soil, so their people had no democracy.
If Bush is correct that democracy is the only hope of Middle East peace, then the Palestinian government had to come back on the soil of Palestine. Oslo may end up in the anals of history as being the Palestine approximation (poor as it may be) of the Paris Peace Accords of 1783 were to the U.S. Constitution -- a necessary first step toward a truely functional federal government.
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