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Jan. 19, 2005 0:31 | Updated Jan. 19, 2005 18:10 Poll: Most Palestinians, Israelis back Clinton plan By LAMIA LAHOUDFor the first time, a majority of Palestinians and Israelis support a final-status settlement based on former US president Bill Clinton's plan, acceding to a survey by the Palestinian Center for Survey Research in Ramallah and the Truman Foundation. Clinton proposed a Palestinian state on most of the land captured in 1967, giving up the right of return and dividing Jerusalem along demographic lines. Sixty three percent of Palestinians support an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,...

From Oslo to Ground Zero By Ruth Wisse On September 2, 1002, I got a call from Richard Bernstein of the New York Times, asking me to comment on an article on the “peace agreement” that was about to be signed by Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel, and Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. My foreboding was registered in the next day’s paper: “Ms. Wisse’s concern is that in dealing with Mr. Arafat, the Israelis are, in effect, intervening in Arab politics, choosing the PLO chief, whom she called ‘a killer’ to be the leader of...