Building Palestine From the Bottom Up
While both the Palestinians and Israel can easily and rightly be blamed for the failure of the Oslo peace process, the fundamental problem was that effort's insistence on creating a Palestinian state from the top down. The effort should shift to building a Palestinian state from the bottom up, for which there are encouraging signs.
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JERUSALEM – As President Barack Obama’s special Middle East envoy, former US Senator George Mitchell, learned during his visit to the region, America’s efforts at Israeli-Palestinian peace-making are running up against three major obstacles. They will, no doubt, also arise in Obama’s upcoming meetings with the region’s leaders.