Israel / Palestine : Ongoing Conflict And Elusive Peace

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Since 1948 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has occupied a central place in the field of political conflicts. It can therefore be defined as an uncompromising conflict, and so it is a conflict which shows a relationship of rivalry between two regions punctuated with large scale violence. Such conflicts are a great threat to international peace and security. One might therefore expect a global society, that is to say individuals, organizations and states do something in order to manage themselves. During the last 50 years, the various parties to the conflict have included Israelis, Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians and Palestinians. Recently the US, the UN and the EU have been playing an increasing role in the conflict. Furthermore, as Bercovitch and Kadayifci have analysed it, the issues of the conflict have also expanded from territorial and sovereignty to identity, religion and also existence. The two parties face themselves in an adversial relationship characterized by numerous acts of violence and counter-violence, dehumanisation of each party and unwillingness to engage in serious conflict solution.

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[...] The action of PLO and of Yasser Arafat was rather ambiguous, but it's not before September 1993 that Yitshak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed under Clinton pressure the Declaration of Principles between Israel and PLO, that is a mutual recognition. The Palestinian Authority : an entity without territory This recognition in the peace process is also a recognition of the Palestinian community. But this raises another question. Once the PLO has been accepted and has become the Palestinian Authority, can we talk of Palestinian identity as the PA is just an entity without any territory. [...]

[...] Israel / Palestine : Ongoing Conflict And Elusive Peace Introduction Since 1948 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has occupied a central place in the field of conflict resolution. It can therefore be defined as an intractable conflict, as intractable conflict denotes a relationship of rivalry between two actors punctuated by periodic recourse to war or large scale violence. Intractable conflicts are a great threat to international peace and security. One might therefore expect global society, that is to say individuals, organizations and states to do something in order to manage them in order to prevent a hobbesian state of nature. [...]

[...] For the Palestinians, these policies are aiming at making irreversible the restitution of territories. In the end of 2000 negotiators were working on possible land exchange, but no agreement has been found yet. The question of refugees remains unanswered as well. Palestinians want Israel to accept a right to return while Israel fears flows of thousands of refugees that would be a threat for Jewish identity in both demographic and psychological terms. compromise would accept the idea of right to return but strict condition would have made it almost impossible in practice.) This raises once again the question of Palestinian identity as people in Israel would sometimes say that there's no Palestinian identity because Palestinians are Arabs above all and should therefore be granted nationality of the state in which they are now installed. [...]

[...] The Israeli-PalestinianI is the result of historical confrontations between identities and legitimacies A. The Establishment of the State of Israel Zionism The Zionist Movement became significant at the end of the XIXth century as it is linked with two major concerns that are the rise of nationalism and many persecutions against Jewish Communities notably in Russia or in France with the Dreyfus Affair. The main protagonist of this movement is the wiener writer Theodore Herzl whose goal is creating a national homeland for Jews of the Diaspora. [...]

[...] All negotiations on a final agreement stopped because of second Intifada. No Palestinian state for the moment (failure of Oslo, Taba, Camp David 2000, Taba . Conclusion It's a local, regional and international conflict at the same time. Arab states are united only when they have a common enemy (this is the case of Israel). The role of the US in the peace process is important so far, but US needs Arab allies in Middle East because of war against Iraq or fight against terrorism. [...]