March 31, 2009: Rebooting the Peace
Process?
The News:
- U.S.
Officials Say Israel Struck in Sudan,
NYT March 27,
2009
- With
Isolation Over, Syria Is Happy to Talk,
NYT March 27,
2009
- Israel
Disputes Soldiers’ Accounts of Gaza Abuses, NYT March 28, 2009
- Tiny
Island Surrounded by Tension in the Gulf, NYT March 30, 2009
- Netanyahu
vows 'every effort to reach viable peace', Haaretz March 30, 2009
- The
Fierce Urgency of Peace, op ed by Roger
Cohen, NYT March 26, 2009
Two Years Ago:
- Bush
Rules Out Bid by Congress for Iraq Pullout, NYT March 29, 2007
- 70
Killed in Wave of Revenge in Northern Iraq
- Dispute
Over Britons Held by Iran Escalates,
March 29, 2007
- Saudi King
Condemns U.S. Occupation of Iraq ,
March 29, 2007
- Terrorized
by 'War on Terror' - by Brzezinski,
Washington Post, March 27, 2007
- Max Kantar, The
Occupation of Palestine,
Countercurrents, March 26, 2007
Rebooting the Peace Process?
- Background: The Road to
Peace (video, 1995, produced by the late UT Prof. Elizabeth
Fernea)
- Oslo 1993 accords, Oslo II September 1995,
Rabin assassination Nov 1995, Netanyahu 1996-1999, Barak 1999-2000
and Camp David II - July 2000, Sharon to Haram al Sherif Sept 28,
2000 and breakout of second Intifada
- The major issues:
- two states' borders:
- View maps of the occupied territories
- West
Bank and Gaza and E.
Jerusalem at the Foundation for
Middle East Peace.
- Here is B'tselem's latest (Feb 2008)
map about the Wall/Security Barrier being erected by
the Israelis.
- Here is departing Prime Minister
Olmert's suggested compromise map.
- Jerusalem - Jerusalem
Facts and Figures - changing
demographics
- future of Israeli
settlements - settler populations
1972-2007
- future of Palestinian
refugees: "right of return"?
- demography - CIA Factbook: Israel / WB-Gaza-East Jerusalem - here are the
demographics
- Jews are not in the majority of historic
Palestine, all of which is controlled by Israel
- If Gaza could somehow be separated off
from the rest of hostoric Palestine, Jews would be the
majority in Israel and the occupied West Bank but will still
lose their majority in 20 years.
- What then, without a two-state solution,
are the prospects for a Jewsish state of Israel?
- Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the
Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the
Palestinian
Center for Policy and Survey Research
in Ramallah, Survey of Israelis and Palestinians, 12-17 March
2008. Survey of Palestinian
refugees' preferences concerning Israel
(July 2003). March
5-7, 2009 PCPSR poll press
release
- Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research:
Peace
Index and latest Oct
2005 and Feb
2007 poll and Feb 2009
poll
- Facts on the ground: the West
Bank "Separation Barrier" -
cutting
off some 10% of the occupied territory and a majority of the
250,000 Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem along with an
additional 35,000 Palestinians outside the city - and surrounding many more (source: Internal
Displacement Monitoring Center -
Norway)
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