Israel and the Palestinians: Ending the Stalemate

1 On Europe see for instance, Bat Ye’or, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005), 48; On the Soviet Union, see Joel Fishman, “The Big Lie and the Media War against Israel: From Inversion of the Truth to Inversion of Reality,” Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 2007, https://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=254&PID=0&IID=1704

2 Mitchell Bard, “The 1967 Six-Day War,” Myths and Facts Online, n.d., https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf6.html#a

3 See, for instance, “Exchange of Letters between PM Rabin and Chairman Arafat,” September 9, 1993, https://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Israel-PLO+Recognition+-+Exchange+of+Letters+betwe.htm, and “Note for the Record,” January 15, 1997, https://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Note+for+the+Record.htm

4 See, for instance, Peace Watch, “PLO Charter Wasn’t Changed,” Legal Opinion, April 25, 1996, https://www.iris.org.il/pncvote.htm, and interview with Fatah leader Farouk Kadumi on ANB television, November 2, 2005, www.memritv.org/clip/en/649.htm

5 “DOCUMENT: Clinton Minutes of Proposal for Agreement Between Israel and Palestinians,” Ha’aretz (Tel Aviv), December 23, 2000, https://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=778

6 Secretary of State Colin Powell, Remarks at the McConnell Center for Political Leadership. University of Louisville, Kentucky, November 19, 2001, https://www.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2001/6219.htm

7 “A Breakthrough and Not a Breakdown,” Palestinian Authority website, July 30, 2000, https://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=4362

8 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Speech to Jewish Agency Assembly, June 28, 2005, https://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=25792; Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Address to the Herzliya Conference, January 24, 2006, https://www.herzliyaconference.org/Eng/_Uploads/1401olmert.doc; Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, speech at the Herzliya Conference, January 23, 2006, https://www.herzliyaconference.org/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=1456&Cate-goryID=215

9 Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid, Michael L. Wise, “The Million Person Gap: A Critical Look at Palestinian Demography, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Perspectives on Current Affairs, May 7, 2006, https://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/perspectives15.html

10 White House, Office of the Press Secretary, “President Bush Calls for New Palestinian Leadership,” June 24, 2002, https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020624-3.html

11 U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, “A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” April 30, 2003, https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/20062.htm

12 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, “Roundtable With Traveling Press,” Jerusalem, Israel, November 4, 2007, www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2007/11/94600.htm

13 “Moussa: The Intifada Will Continue as Long as the Israeli Occupation Continues,” WAFA (Ramallah), August 31, 2001, https://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=7995

14 This symbolic refusal to accept Israel in any size is made clear by the PA’s consistent publication of maps of Palestine that encompass the entire State of Israel. Then, too, Fatah leaders, like Hamas leaders, refer to Arab citizens of Israel as 1948 Palestinians—that is, Arabs who have been living under Israeli occupation since 1948 rather than since 1967 in the case of the Arabs from Gaza, Judea and Samaria and unified Jerusalem. See for instance, Fatah editorial, “The Eyes of the World Turn Towards Jerusalem,” January 11, 2001, https://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=507. Moreover, the official PLO position on Palestinian statehood is that any Palestinian state must be based upon the partition plan set out in 1947 by UN General Assembly Resolution 181. See, for instance, Fatah editorial, “Actualizing Palestinian Sovereignty,” September 27, 2000, https://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=4706.

15 Yigal Carmon and Aluma Solnick, “Camp David and the Prospects for a Final Settlement, Part I: Israeli, Palestinian and American Positions,” Middle East Media Research Institute Inquiry and Analysis no. 35, August, 4, 2000, https://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA3500

16 Yotam Feldner and Aluma Solnick, “Palestinian Thoughts on the Right of Return,” Middle East Media Research Institute Special Report no. 5, March 30, 2001, https://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sr&ID=SR00501

17 “Abbas Continues Rejecting ‘Jewish State’ Notion,” Jerusalem Post, December 1, 2001, https://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546775369&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

18 Speech by Yasser Arafat at Arab Summit at Cairo, October 21, 2000, https://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=4920

19 Itamar Marcus, “This Week in the Palestinian Media,” Palestinian Media Watch, August 3, 2000, https://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=4384

20 “Hamas Wins Local Gaza elections, US Unimpressed,” Palestine Media Center, January 29, 2005, https://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=783