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Red lines

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PERHAPS it was a coincidence. The first crisis in the Oslo peace process since Ehud Barak became Israel's prime minister erupted on August 1st, when Palestinian negotiators angrily walked out of a meeting with their Israeli counterparts. On the same day, Yasser Arafat led a delegation from his Fatah movement to Cairo for a get-together with the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This was the first one-to-one meeting since the two groups, the main bodies within the Palestine Liberation Organisation, were torn apart by the signing of the Oslo accords in September 1993.

This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Red lines”

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