The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

ernment of this attack in order to maintain its practice of State terrorism and to launch a devastating general war of aggressio ...

CHAPTER 3 Israel and the Palestinians CHAPTER 3 DOCUMENTS Overview 165 Part I: Palestinian Resistance and Israeli Settlement, 19 ...

Document: Letter from Yasir Arafat to Norwegian Foregin Minister Johan Jo/rgen Holst 219 Document: Letter from Yitzhak Rabin to ...

CHAPTER 3 Overview O f all the conflicts in the contemporary world, none has proved to be as dan- gerous to broader peace as the ...

Many Israelis believe that they have a God-given right to Palestine that cannot be denied and that this overrides all other cons ...

that war were too fresh for the Arabs, and Israelis were too smitten by the prospect of creating the Greater Israel of Zionist d ...

through the United Nations) have responded to the conflict in one of two ways: offer- ing rhetorical support for one side or the ...

The Palestinian National Movement DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT In January 1964, Arab leaders meeting in Cairo voted to establish the Pale ...

amended its 1964 charter to redouble the emphasis on “armed struggle” as “the only way to liberate Palestine” from Israel. Other ...

of the Palestinian Arab people, through the disasters which befell them, do not make them lose their Palestinian identity and th ...

Article 12: The Palestinian people believe in Arab unity. In order to contribute their share toward the attainment of that objec ...

of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland, and inconsistent with the principles embodied in the Cha ...

Article 27: The Palestine Liberation Organization shall cooperate with all Arab states, each according to its potentialities; an ...

Israel and the Question of Palestinian Statehood DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT During the first four and a half decades of Israel’s existe ...

representatives who would then negotiate with Israel. That initiative went nowhere, but four years later, in 1993, Israeli prime ...

The Palestinian Arabs have in Jordan every opportunity for national self expres- sion. They need Jordan—just as Jordan cannot ex ...

can and must find its solution in the Kingdom of Jordan. At the conclusion of the peace treaties, we shall insist that the adven ...

in the West Bank, and an estimated 8,000 in the Gaza Strip. (Israel dismantled its settlements in Gaza in 2005.) Israel unilater ...

In 1973 Israel Galili, a minister without portfolio in the cabinet of Prime Minis- ter Gold Meir, drafted another semiofficial d ...

Begin’s government in 1979 to decide to expand the scope of the settlements. A key element flowing from this decision was the cr ...