Mouin Rabbani, an independent Middle East analyst based in Amman, Jordan, is a contributing editor to Middle East Report and a senior fellow with the Institute of Palestine Studies. He was previously senior Middle East analyst and special adviser on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group.
The agreement to end the schism between the two Palestinian factions reflects the profound political changes underway in the Middle East.
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Will Palestinians be compelled to live by Ariel Sharon's repressive vision or will they compel Israel to accept genuine self-determination for the
Palestinian people?
The shockingly awful Anglo-American invasion of Iraq means that Jordan
is now literally situated between two wars: To the west, the
increasingly bloody Israeli-Palestinian confrontation is now
The Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which in late September 2000 began as a wave of popular protest against Ariel Sharon's belligerent incursion into Jerusalem's sacred Haram


