Israel / Palestine : Ongoing Conflict And Elusive Peace
Résumé de l'exposé
Since 1948 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has occupied a central place in the field of political conflicts. It can therefore be defined as an uncompromising conflict, and so it is a conflict which shows a relationship of rivalry between two regions punctuated with large scale violence. Such conflicts are a great threat to international peace and security. One might therefore expect a global society, that is to say individuals, organizations and states do something in order to manage themselves. During the last 50 years, the various parties to the conflict have included Israelis, Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians and Palestinians. Recently the US, the UN and the EU have been playing an increasing role in the conflict. Furthermore, as Bercovitch and Kadayifci have analysed it, the issues of the conflict have also expanded from territorial and sovereignty to identity, religion and also existence. The two parties face themselves in an adversial relationship characterized by numerous acts of violence and counter-violence, dehumanisation of each party and unwillingness to engage in serious conflict solution.
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Sommaire de l'exposé
The Israeli-PalestinianI is the result of historical confrontations between identities and legitimacies
The Establishment of the State of Israel
Territorial conflicts in Middle East
Despite mutual recognition, many unanswered questions have stopped the peace process and led to another escalation of violence
The affirmation of the Palestinian cause
Towards a Palestinian State?
Extraits de l'exposé
[...] The action of PLO and of Yasser Arafat was rather ambiguous, but it's not before September 1993 that Yitshak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed under Clinton pressure the Declaration of Principles between Israel and PLO, that is a mutual recognition. The Palestinian Authority : an entity without territory This recognition in the peace process is also a recognition of the Palestinian community. But this raises another question. Once the PLO has been accepted and has become the Palestinian Authority, can we talk of Palestinian identity as the PA is just an entity without any territory. [...]
[...] Israel / Palestine : Ongoing Conflict And Elusive Peace Introduction Since 1948 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has occupied a central place in the field of conflict resolution. It can therefore be defined as an intractable conflict, as intractable conflict denotes a relationship of rivalry between two actors punctuated by periodic recourse to war or large scale violence. Intractable conflicts are a great threat to international peace and security. One might therefore expect global society, that is to say individuals, organizations and states to do something in order to manage them in order to prevent a hobbesian state of nature. [...]
[...] Will Palestinians have a state of their own? B. Towards a Palestinian State? The support of International Community in the context of a globalized era In globalized era, the idea of a Palestinian state seems to be wanted by most countries and considered unavoidable by Israel. The PA can count on the support of International community. This is wanted by both Clinton and Bush administrations as there's no other choice. EU said as well, in the Berlin Declaration of March, 26th that the Palestinians had a permanent and unrestricted right to self-determination that includes the possibility to create a state. [...]
[...] Consequently, there would be nowadays more Israelis than Palestinians in East Jerusalem. But Palestinians still want East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state, which Israel didn't seem ready to accept as all Israeli governments agreed that the status of the city wouldn't be the object of negotiations. However Israel made great concessions in Camp David in 2000. Districts of East Jerusalem inhabitated by Arabs would be under Palestinian administration while Israel would annex most Jewish colonies eastbound and would keep control over the Wailing Wall. [...]
[...] After this war, Israel is 80% of Palestine, the Gaza Strip is under Egyptian administration while Jordan annexes West Bank and East Jerusalem (annexation not recognized by other Arab states.) 02/ The Sinai campaign (1956): Along with France and the United Kingdom, Tsahal invades the Gaza Strip and the Sinai but the US and the USSR impose a ceasefire. UNEF - the United Nations Emergency Force, was established to guard against a recurrence of past events. 03/ The six-day war (June, 5-10, 1967): Nasser denied to Israeli shipping access to the Aqaba gulf. Israel was alone against a powerful Arab coalition. [...]
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