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15 statements
01Evidence and context
In July 2000 Clinton brought Ehud Barak and Arafat to Camp David. Each side blamed the other for the failure.
On September 28, 2000, Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount with over 1,000 police. The second intifada erupted afterward, without being directly caused by the visit.
On March 27, 2002, the Passover massacre at Netanya's Park Hotel killed 30 people and injured 140.
Operation Defensive Shield, the largest West Bank operation since 1967, wrecked nearly all of the Palestinian civil administration and besieged Arafat's compound in Ramallah.
The chapter records about 3,000 Palestinians, 1,000 Israelis, and 64 foreigners killed in the period it describes after Operation Defensive Shield.
In March 2002 a Saudi-sponsored Arab initiative proposed withdrawal to the June 1967 lines in exchange for recognition.
A group called the Quartet, made up of Washington, Brussels, the UN, and Moscow, offered the Roadmap for Peace, with a final deal aimed at 2005. The plan stalled.
In June 2002 Sharon's government began a West Bank barrier. Israelis call it a security fence. Palestinians and supporters call it the apartheid wall.
In December 2003 Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abed Rabbo announced the Geneva Accord, in which Palestinians would give up the right of return in exchange for nearly all of the West Bank.
At Annapolis in 2007, George W. Bush brought together Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas, then running Gaza, said nothing settled there would bind it.
Under John Kerry, talks still aimed at a final-status deal and a two-state solution. The book treats that scenario as a distant dream.
Hamas and supporters, from militant groups to non-violent international organizations such as BDS, repeat the slogan "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free," a formula that would end Israel as a Jewish state.
Strident voices on the Israeli right, as the chapter reports, treat all of historic Palestine as Israel's, and some advocate expelling the Palestinians.
The chapter calls both one-state solutions, the Palestinian and the Israeli-right versions, a recipe for endless injustice.
The chapter treats the unsettled status of the Palestinians as Israel's hardest moral and political problem.
Context
In July 2000 Clinton brought Ehud Barak and Arafat to Camp David. Each side blamed the other for the failure.
On September 28, 2000, Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount with over 1,000 police. The second intifada erupted afterward, without being directly caused by the visit.
On March 27, 2002, the Passover massacre at Netanya's Park Hotel killed 30 people and injured 140.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
§ 03Historiography
What scholars debate
Scholarly debate · 01
Which one-state futures does the chapter refuse?
2 positions · no single answer · take a seat →
- A
From the river to the sea
Hamas and supporters, from militants to non-violent groups such as BDS
All of historic Palestine would be a Palestinian state, with or without a guarantee of Jewish life inside it.
- B
A Jewish state from river to sea
Strident voices on the Israeli right, as the chapter reports
All of historic Palestine would belong to Israel; some advocate expelling the Palestinians.
Scholarly debate · 02
Did the peace process produce peace or delay?
2 positions · no single answer · take a seat →
- A
Land for peace
The American and Oslo diplomatic formula
Gaza and the West Bank would become a Palestinian state, given in return for lasting recognition of Israel.
- B
Process as a tactic
The chapter's balance
More emphasis fell on process than on peace, and the parties bought time to avoid concessions.
§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
Alan Dowty, Israel/Palestine (Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2005).
Israel and Palestine · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 517
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 473inspect
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