The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History (Contemporary Worlds) by Bickerton Ian J

Author:Bickerton, Ian J. [Bickerton, Ian J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2011-06-15T21:00:00+00:00

The failure to reach an agreement over the West Bank at this time seems all the more tragic, since there were still relatively few settlers (less than 3,000) and they would not have been able to veto all concessions, as they do today. The Palestinians over the ensuing years became radicalized by the increasingly humiliating occupation regime and by the large-scale expropriation of Palestinian land for the exclusive use of Israeli settlers. At that time the PLO was not recognized internationally, and neither Hamas nor Hezbollah existed. The later creation of Hamas was, in fact, encouraged by the Israelis as a counterweight to the PLO. An autonomous Palestinian entity, at peace with Israel, would not have removed the PLO from the scene, but its impact might have been considerably weakened. Alternatively, in a peace settlement with Jordan the Palestinian issue might have reverted to what it had been before 1967: mainly a Jordanian problem.

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