Transcript Settlements - Broader View

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
Territorial or Existential?
Nevet Basker
March 2011
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It’s Both!
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TWO Conflicts in One!
Different objectives
Different players
Different themes
But…
• Same land
• Similar terms
• Some confusion
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The Territorial Conflict
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Territorial Conflict: Objective
“Two-State Solution”
Self-determination for
Jews & Palestinians
• Two states for two peoples
• Minority rights
Peaceful co-existence
• Mutual recognition
• Secure and recognized
borders
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Territorial Conflict: Players
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Territorial Conflict: Themes
U.N.
Resolution
181 (1947
Partition
Plan)
Security
fence/
separation
barrier
Quartet
“Roadmap”
(2004)
Independent
Palestine
alongside
Jewish Israel, in
peace and
security
U.N.
Resolution
242 (1967
“land for
peace”)
“1967
occupation”
Oslo Accords
(1993)
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Territorial Conflict: Issues
Range of possible
compromise
• Borders
• Settlements
• Jerusalem
• Security
Who speaks for the
Palestinians?
• Fatah legitimacy
• Hamas in Gaza
• Turmoil in Arab world
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The Existential Conflict
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Existential Conflict: Objective
The end of Israel as a Jewish state
Conventional
military
destruction
Nuclear
weapons
Terrorism [?]
Demographic
changes
Delegitimization
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Existential Conflict: Players
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Existential Conflict: Themes
All of Israel is Palestine
• “From the River to the Sea”
• “1948 occupation”
Palestinian “right of return”
• U.N. Resolution 194
• No Jewish rights at all!
Denying Jewish ties to the land
• Jewish “colonialism”
• Demonization of all Jews
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Hamas
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Al-Quds Brigades (Palestinian Islamic Jihad)
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Al Fatah
Palestinian National Charter (1968)
Article 1. Palestine is the homeland of the Arab Palestinian people …
Article 2. Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an
indivisible territorial unit.
Article 5. The Palestinians are those Arab nationals who, until 1947, normally
resided in Palestine regardless of whether they were evicted from it or have
stayed there. Anyone born, after that date, of a Palestinian father—whether
inside Palestine or outside it—is also a Palestinian.
Article 9. Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. This it is the
overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national duty
and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the
Arab homeland, and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine.
Article 19. The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state
of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time …
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7TH Grade Geography Textbook:
“Mineral Resources in Palestine”
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4TH Grade National Education
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Textbook: Table of Contents
PA Government Agencies
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Mahmoud Abbas at PA Headquarters
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Palestinian Solidarity Conference
Georgetown, February 2006
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Blurring the Line
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“End the Occupation”!
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“Free Palestine”!
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The Test
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5’51”
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