Arab-Israeli Politics
Class 10: Issues of Refugees and
Self-Determination
First a quick note on preparations for your
November conference
- Consult your 2008 resources: Today's gives a general US perspective (even though
divided between the even-handed and the more pro-Israeli behind
the scenes - compare with the divisions of the British leadership
in the 1930s and 1940s.
- US Institute of Peace
new
well reviewed book on negotiating Arab-Israeli peace:
intro
- should we add it to the syllabus for key actors to read?
cheaper
at amazon - anyway FYI!--CH P.S. long (25 meg= 1 hr or so)
audio presented by the authors in late 2007 at bottom of
this
page (download into your ipod?) along with the
"ten
lessons" learned from 1990s and current decade.
The Refugee Problems
- how did they go? see PBS video 50 Years War (begins
November 1947 after partition
reoslution passed by UN - 9 minutes mpg file=100 megs)
- where did they go? 470,000 of the 727,000
displaced went to refugee camps in West Bank and Gaza, rest to
Lebanon, Syria, Jordan East Bank, a few to Egypt and Iraq.
- who replaced them? see PBS video
50 Years War
(May
15, 1948: enter the Arab armies, Israeli War of
Independence - armistices in 1949) -
another 9+ minute mpg file=100 megs)
- Absentee Property Regulations Act of
1950
- Law of the Return of 1950
- 1967 refugees from the West Bank
Toward Solutions
- Bernadotte Progrress Report of Sept. 16, 1948:
right of repatriation or, for those choosing not to return,
compensation
- UN General Assembly Resolution 194 (Dec 11,
1948) and Conciliation Commission for Palestine
- Failures of 1949-1993: Lausanne Conference
1949 - 100,000 to return?
- UNWRA 1950-1999....(UN Relief and Works
Agency)
- Madrid and Oslo processes 1991-
- Declaration of Principles of Sept 1993
discusses both the 1948 refugees and the 1967 refugees.
- Continuing Committee of reps from Israel,
Palestine, Jordan, Egypt
- bilateral track: esp. Jordan-Israel relations
and the 1967 refugees
- Refugee Multilateral Working Group chaired by
Canada
A Final Settlement?
- as is?
- the right of return?
- issues of compensation
-
25 Sept. 2008
- Department
of Government, College
of Liberal Arts, University
of Texas at Austin.
- Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to
chenry@mail.utexas.edu