A Decade of Peace Negotiations and a Decade of War

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A Decade of Peace Negotiations and a Decade of War

• Class 27 3/11/2009

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Palestinians Change Strategy

• From a strategy of armed struggle, destruction of
  Israel, and a state in all of Palestine
• To a strategy of partition, two states, and
  negotiation
• Prompted by military defeats and exile to Tunis
• Declaration of a Palestinian State

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Israel Changes Strategy

• From a strategy of military-first, Jordanian
  option, non-recognition of PLO
• To a strategy of negotiations, two states, and
  recognition of the PLO
• The effect of the Lebanon War
• The Intifada and Long-term Occupation
• The Gulf War as a turning point

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The Gulf War, 1991
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The Handshake, 1993
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The Handshake Video

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v2_wYBA-QqcEfeature
  related

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Oslo Interim Accord, 1995
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Wye River Memorandum
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Camp David II, 2000
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Al Aqsa Intifada A Battle for World Opinion
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Map proposed at Taba by Israel
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• ISRAELI PROPOSAL

• PALESTINIAN COUNTER-PROPOSAL

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A Decade of War

• 1. US radically changes foreign policy
• 2. Israel turns to Ariel Sharon
• 3. Palestinian institutions destroyed, Arafat
  dies, Hamas triumphant

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Withdrawal from Gaza
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Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza
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Hamas Tramples on the PLO
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Annapolis Peace Conference, 2007
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The Situation Today