The Fight for Jerusalem by Dore Gold

Author:Dore Gold
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT, Religion And Politics, Religion, History - General History, Middle East - Israel, Political Science / General, Religion, Politics & State, 1993-, Arab-Israel conflict, Ethnic relations, International status, Jerusalem, Peace, General
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2007-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

settlement; a detailed agreement would require further negotiation between the parties. Significantly, according to notes taken by Giddi Grin-stein, who worked for Israeli negotiator Gilead Sher, Clinton's oral presentation was to be regarded only as "the ideas of the president." And if the ideas were not accepted, Clinton stated, "they are not just off the table; they go with the president as he leaves office." 57 Clinton's proposals can be summarized as follows:

Redivision of Jerusalem

The "general principle" put forward was that "Arab areas are Palestinian and Jewish areas are Israeli." This principle for assigning sovereignty was to be applied to the Old City as well. Clinton urged both sides "to create maximal contiguity." This new Clinton proposal was even more favorable to the PLO than the earlier Camp David ideas, since it transferred Palestinian residential areas in the inner neighborhoods around the Old City to full Palestinian sovereignty instead of just giving the Palestinians functional powers in the framework of Israeli sovereignty.

The Temple Mount Taken from Israel

The Clinton proposals contained several alternative solutions for the Temple Mount:

1. Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount and Israeli sovereignty over the Western Wall "and the space sacred to Judaism of which it is a part," or Israeli sovereignty over the Western Wall "and the Holy of Holies of which it is a part." This proposal would also contain a firm commitment by both sides not to excavate beneath the Temple Mount or behind the Western Wall.

2. Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount and Israeli sovereignty over the Western Wall and "shared functional sovereignty over the issue of excavation," requiring the mutual consent of the parties before any excavation could take place. This second alternative eliminated the idea of Israeli subterranean sovereignty on the Temple Mount that was advanced at Camp David.

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