Prophets without Honor by Shlomo Ben-Ami

Author:Shlomo Ben-Ami
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Part III

2001–20: A Story of Promise and Deceit

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The Conversion of the Hawks

The quest for peace did not die in Taba. But the ever unbridgeable gap between what it was necessary and what was possible for the parties to do attests to the built-in intractability of the conflict. Every peace plan produced since the year 2000 was a reshaped version of the outline approved by the Barak government in the form of the Clinton parameters. Trapped these days, twenty-one years after the Camp David process, in an ever deepening occupation, and denied any horizons of a peaceful political solution to their plight, the Palestinians might wonder whether the Clinton parameters were such a bad deal after all. Eighteen months after he had rejected them, a besieged Yasser Arafat, in a frantic attempt to save his political life, said he now “absolutely” accepted the parameters.1 They are no longer on the agenda was the then prime minister Ariel Sharon’s reaction.2

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