Israel eyes deal without joy the Toronto Star by Mitch Potter

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Israel eyes deal without joy
With the glee of the 1990s peace process long gone, Olmert dangles incentives to the Palestinians to build on wobbly truce
Nov. 28, 2006. 05:46 AM
MITCH POTTER
MIDDLE EAST BUREAU


JERUSALEM—"Israeli novelist Amos Oz indulged yesterday in a question few in this corner of the world have dared utter for six long and bloody years: Could this brittle ceasefire, barely three days old, actually bring an end to the darkness?

Writing in the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Oz did not go so far as to use the word peace. Instead, he described how Palestinians and Israelis alike are conditioned for a joyless but inevitable "compromise of pain and clenched teeth."

Neither side will dance in the streets when the deal is made. But even those who condemn it as treachery and disaster, Oz said, will not be surprised at its terms — two states, Israel and Palestine, living more or less within the 1967 borders and sharing Jerusalem, the city of two capitals.

The Palestinian refugees will not return to Israel but instead will be free to live in Palestine. The Jewish settlers will not be free to live in Palestine but instead return to Israel. Each group will be laden with compensation cash to cushion so bitter a blow.

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1. Beats bloody privation

IMHO