Gad Barzilai and Ilan Peleg / Journal of Peace Research (February, 1994)
Deals with the question of determining a future Israeli-Palestinian border within the context of an analytical
framework developed by the authors. The article demonstrates the dramatic transformation, among both the Israeli
elite and general public, from a territorial to ethnic imperative and from integration of the West Bank and Gaza to
separation through withdrawal.
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60 Minutes (February 1989)
Will there ever be peace in the Middle East? That's one of the questions Mike Wallace poses to Yasir Arafat,
chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Arafat discusses the PLO's reputation for violence, and
describes his vision for economic cooperation in the region. (12:35) Watch >
August 18, 1988
Outlines the position of the Palestinian Islamic organization Hamas on a number key issues. Identifies Hamas as the
Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine and and calls for the eventual creation of an Islamic state in Palestine, in place
of Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and the obliteration or dissolution of Israel. Read Document >
June 30, 1980
Declared that "all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which
purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal validity and constitute a
flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention". The resolution was adopted by 14 votes to none, with the
United States abstaining. Read Document >
March 26, 1979
Treaty signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin that made Egypt the
first Arab country to officially recognize Israel. Included mutual recognition, cessation of the state of war that
had existed since 1948, normalization of relations, and complete Israeli withdrawal by Israel from the Sinai
Peninsula which Israel had captured during the Six-Day War in 1967. Read Document >
April 8, 1968
Top secret memorandum sent to Israel's Foreign Ministers in the wake of the 1967 war. It contains the opinion of
the Legal Adviser to the Foreign Ministry that settlement in the "administered territories" occupied by Israel
after the war is in contravention of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Read More >
November 22, 1967
Refers to the "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting
peace in the Middle East in which every State in the area can live in security." Passed unanimously, it calls for
withdrawal of Israel forces from occupied territory and "termination of all claims or states of belligerency"
between the Arab states and Israel. Read Document >
August 12, 1949
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, signed by 195 states including Israel. Declares, in part, that an
"Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territories it
occupies". Read Document >
August 12, 1949
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, signed by 195 states including Israel. Declares, in part, that an
"Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territories it
occupies". Read Document >