While it is important to push ahead and envision a just future for all of historical Palestine, it is instructive to look back to understand how Israel and Palestine arrived at these current crossroads. For all of its failures, there are still many lessons to be gleaned from the legacy of the Oslo Accords. We invite you to read this special virtual issue for free online for a limited time.
But until that happens, a lot more blood is likely to be shed in the Middle East. Amos Harel Sep. Updated: Sep. Get email notification for articles from Amos Harel Follow. Men Are Causing the Climate Crisis. Women Have the Solutions. Tel Aviv Is Over. Gay Haredim Turn to Her for Help. Sometimes She Prescribes Chemical Castration. It would require both parties to make considerable compromises, but offer both of them a viable sovereign state and the right of self-determination: a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, Jewish Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Arab Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, and a special arrangement in the Holy Basin to secure freedom of worship for all; annexation of major Jewish settlement blocs adjacent to the Green Line in exchange for swaps of equivalent land; removal of all other settlements from the West Bank; and enabling Palestinians living in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, to settle into a new State of Palestine—not into Israel.
Had the Palestinians not walked away from those offers in and in , there would today be two peoples settled in their homelands behind secure borders. Ultimately, sooner or later, all wars and all conflicts end, with a bang or with a whimper. There is no reason to assume that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is more intractable than others. But if we have learnt anything over the past 25 years, it is that being ambiguous about the simple fact that neither side is going to have the entirety of the land does no one any favors.
Israelis will have to accept the fact that they cannot build settlements all over the West Bank, and Palestinians will have to accept the fact that they cannot settle inside Israel in the name of return. The sooner both sides hear and internalize these simple, cold, hard truths, the sooner we will be able to speak of hope again.
Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. So, all Palestinian leaders have to meet and establish an alternative strategy," he said. He asserted that these measures make any hopes in any future negotiations "unreasonable".
The decision to annex parts of the already occupied West Bank is part of a plan agreed by Netanyahu and his rival-turned-ally Benny Gantz, the head of the Blue and White party. The plan calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the form of an archipelago connected by bridges and tunnels. Disappointment Jan Egeland, who was among the initiators of the peace negotiations that led to the Oslo Accords, had also a take on the Israeli measures and the failure of the fruitless agreement.
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