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- Title: Challenges to the Peace Process Today (Israel-Palestine Border Conflict) (Viewpoint Essay)
- Author : American Diplomacy
- Release Date : January 28, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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A distinguished retired diplomat, who served as an American Ambassador on three continents, critically examines the Arab-Israeli peace process and the difficulties that stand in the way of a solution to a problem that has baffled so many for so long.--Ed. The peace process is essentially dead. There is neither a workable process, nor is there any agreement on the nature of the peace to which a process is designed to lead. On paper there is a process: the 2003 Road Map (building on the 1993 Oslo Accords) in which President Bush set out a series of principles for the Israelis and Palestinians. In effect it was a step by step approach under which each side would take explicit confidence building measures. The Israelis would dismantle settlement outposts and freeze settlement activity. It would reduce restrictions on Palestinian movement on the West Bank. The Palestinians would bring violence to a halt and militias under control. Later stages would lead to an Israeli withdrawal, the resolution of final status issues and the creation of an independent Palestinian State. None of this has happened and both sides have systematically ignored the understandings that they made to the American Government at that time. Yet, if the rhetoric of the international community is to be believed, a peace based on two states living in peace and security side by side is achievable if only the two sides would make the necessary concessions or if they were pushed hard enough by the American Administration. I have my doubts.