Conflicted Are the Peacemakers: Israeli and Palestinian Moderates and the Death of Oslo by Eric N. Budd

Author:Eric N. Budd [Budd, Eric N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Essays, History & Theory, Diplomacy, Political Science, General
ISBN: 9781441151667
Google: YIjFAgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 17138084
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2012-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

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Israeli and Palestinian Peacemakers: Can They Walk the Walk?

In the preceding chapters, we have explored the role of the Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers in the death of the Oslo Peace Process. In Chapter 3, we saw how their inherent ambivalence vis-à-vis the peace process and one another led to the loss of the “Oslo Spirit,” and influenced the various negotiations that occurred over implementing the Declaration of Principles. Similarly, Chapter 4 showed how their rhetoric revealed their inherent ambivalence vis-à-vis Oslo, and not only expressed their views on the peace process and one another, but also further reinforced those views in self-fulfilling prophecies. This chapter will build on these preceding chapters to explore some of the actual proposals for a final settlement of the conflict.

The 2000 Camp David Summit between Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat has been the subject of almost as much contentious debate as the Oslo Peace Process itself. As a result, both sides have developed their own national narratives surrounding the Summit. According to Barak, the Israelis, and their supporters in the United States and beyond, Camp David represented an unprecedented offer that Arafat and the Palestinians failed to accept. If that is the case, Barak’s offer would seem to refute this book’s contention that the peacemakers’ inherent ambivalence vis-à-vis the peace process prevents them from being able to push the peace process to its fruition. Therefore, the Camp David Summit serves as a perfect test for our three principles, and will serve as the primary focus of this chapter. In addition, we will also examine two other instances when the moderates tried to push the process toward a final settlement: the Beilin-Abu Mazen Agreement and the National Conciliation Document of the Prisoners. By examining these two attempts, along with the Camp David Summit, it enables us to examine an Israeli proposal (Camp David), a joint Israeli-Palestinian proposal (Beilin-Abu Mazen), and finally an exclusively Palestinian effort (National Conciliation Document of the Prisoners.)

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