According to an apocryphal story, Pope John Paul once said that he believes there are two possible solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the realistic and the miraculous. The realistic being divine intervention, and the miraculous being a voluntary agreement by both parties. On September 13th, 1993, it looked like the miraculous had happened when the Oslo Accords were signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House South Lawn. However, the objectives of the historic accords were never fully implemented and the Palestinians remain a stateless nation. Further steps toward Israeli-Arab peace, including the Cairo Agreement, Oslo II and the Camp David Summit, have fallen short of the goals of both parties.
When he became president in 1993, Bill Clinton and his advisors did not initially make Israeli-Palestinian peace a priority. The administration looked first to other Middle Eastern affairs, believing that an Israeli-Syrian agreement was more likely, and that the policy of “dual containment” in Iran and Iraq was more pressing. They thought that once they made a breakthrough between Israel and Syria the Lebanese would be close behind, and that this would put pressure on the Iran and Iraq, the biggest opponents of any sort of Israeli-Arab peace deal (US Office of the Historian). The Americans were made aware of the secret negotiations that had begun in Oslo in December 1992 between the
The Israel-Palestine Conflict The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a part of the greater Arab-Israeli long-running conflict in the Middle East. The main point of this conflict is the existence of the state of Israel and its relations with Arab states and with the Palestinian population in the area. The idea and concept of Israel was born in the mid 19th century. Jews of Europe and America wanted a place for their homeland, where they could go and be with others of the same race and religion. Palestine was chosen because of its religious routs from The Bible as the “promised land” from God, and the motherland of Jews fled, known as the Diaspora.
The Arab/Israeli conflict is a conflict between the Arabs and the Jews over a small piece of land known as the holy land which is an area in the Middle East of the Arab world. The Arabs call the land Palestine, the Jews call it Israel but both religions have strong religious links with the land. There is conflict between the two religions because they both believe that the land belongs to them.
-Quartet of Middle east— recognizes Israel but also wants Palestinian to have their own state. They struggle to find a way for peace. There are different resolutions that have been suggested such as the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993, Road map for peace, Camp David Summit 2000, etc. but it all failed.
In 2000 Clinton made a deal with Palestines. He said “I killed myself trying to give the Palestinians a state”. He tried to give Palestinians all of Gaza, they then refused. On October 16, 2000 Clinton
“Peace Not Apartheid” impacted the conflict by showing how Jimmy Carter truly felt on the issue, or at least how he has felt in more recent years considering it was only published about 10 years ago. It showed a more one-sided view, a side that was for a Palestinian State, because, according to Carter’s views, since the Israelis took land away from the Palestinians, Israel does not deserve the land and should give it back to the Palestinians as a start toward peace. The book also created much controversy and for Israelis to begin to ignore him altogether, because now he is seen as a sort of wrecking ball for Israel, and will no longer meet with him at all, relatively stating that people who bring harm to Israel shall not be negotiated with. The impact from this book on the Palestinians created the point that now Hamas is willing to listen to Jimmy Carter. Due to the sort of backlash toward “Peace Not Apartheid,” he published “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land.” This book outlined a calmer, balanced view rather than a harsh view, which impacted the conflict causing the Israelis to open up a bit more to his ideals, but still being cautious. Jimmy Carter relatively states that now is a good time to strive for peace because the road to it
This essay will focus on how theorists of peace and conflict have analysed the conflict in recent history. Especially, the peace process after the first Palestinian intifada and the 1993 Oslo-agreements will be analysed. In addition, this essay will shed light on the involvement of the United States in the
In the fall of 1978, Carter invited Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt’s president Anwar Sabat to discuss with Carter at Camp David. Between September 5th and September 19th, 1978, Carter shuttled between Israeli and Egyptian delegations, hammering out the terms of peace. Consequently, Begin and Sabat reached a historic agreement: Israel would withdraw from the entire Sinai Peninsula, and the U.S. would establish monitoring posts to ensure that neither side attacked the other; Israel and Egypt would recognize each others governments and sign a peace treaty; and Israel pledged to negotiate with the Palestinians for peace.
The main achievement of this deal was to establish a peace deal between Israel and Palestine, with the help of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. We focused on the main issue of ensuring that Palestine is given water immediately to combat the ongoing humanitarian crisis that they were encountering. This helped bring Palestine to the table in the first place. The United States also, with the help of Saudi Arabia, both promised to provide Israel and Palestine with financial aid to help them with the resettlement of people in the West Bank. The main agreement was that the resettlement will begin within the next 2 years; the United States will provide more aid to those Israelis that leave the West Bank first. Not only economic aid, but military aid was promised to Israel by the United States and Saudi Arabia to help facilitate the resettlement. The deal that was agreed to also facilitated for the creation of a transitional council, that would oversee resettlement and ensure that all sections of the deal will be upheld. This coalition between the U.S and Saudi Arabia was joined at the end of negotiations by Jordan and Egypt, and saw these four countries, along with Israel and Palestine, sign the Amman Accords. Although I was not directly involved in these talks, my team handled it perfectly and the same way in which I would have. We really felt like a unit.
Bill Clinton tried very hard to promote equality and peace about each side to the other. The Palestinians believed that the Israelites had taken over their homeland so they were trying to get it back by going to war with Israel. Israel believed that it was meant to be theirs all along so that they may have a safe land to call home. All though the Palestinians had more will to fight, Israel had a much bigger and better army, which could completely demolish the Palestinians. Bill Clinton’s goal here was to show that two mortal enemy nations could come together and unite in peace, but this proved to be pointless, after he realized that the countries were still true enemies even after they shook hands for the Oslo
The Camp David Accords were signed on September 17, 1978 at the presidential retreat Camp David. It was a peace treaty between the two warring nations Israel and Egypt and was paired with a shuffle in territory. U.S. president Jimmy Carter accompanied Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian leader Anwar El Sadat for the negotiations. These events led to more interaction with Egypt and Israel, paved the way for future diplomatic meetings, and contributed to a psychological shift in Israel.
The Middle East has long been home to very deep-rooted conflict. For too long, the citizens of the Middle East have lived in the central of death and fear. The animosity between few, takes the hope of hundreds. The Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict is most notably the largest issue preventing peace in the Middle East, but it is by no means the only issue. The issue of bankrolling and foreign aid are also issues preventing peace; because the U.S provides so much funding and foreign aid to certain countries, it is in some sense encouraging them to continue acting the way they act now and not change for the better of the region. It is also making the U.S look biased and can potentially cause issues for America in the long run, if they haven’t already. There is also the conflict of the Persian Gulf; the importance of these “new” resources and how it could affect the world economy and also the balancing of powers in the Persian Gulf; The U.S and the Middle Eastern nations will need to work to together to bring about security and stability into the Persian Gulf and hopefully it can overflow to the Middle East as well.
The Arab-Israeli Conflict The Arab Israeli conflict has gone on for many years. There have been many wars, terrorist attacks and peace treaties between Israel and the Arab countries. Through war and Treaties Israel has gained and lost alot of land. There have been 4 major wars between Israel and The Arab countries, as well as terrorist attacks.
The current conflict in the Middle East between the Israeli Jews and the Palestinian Arabs has many historical roots. Several events in the history of this conflict have been very important and also have a strong connection with the current situation between the two sides. One of these important events was the Nazi Holocaust. During the Second World War the Jews were persecuted by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been in existence since the end of 19th century. The conflict became an international concern when Israel got its independence in 1948. This conflict has resulted in a lot of minor conflicts and 5major wars.
were chosen by God to set up a state of Israel where they could not be