Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace

by Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain

• ISBN13: 9780253211590
• ISBN10: 025321159X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

What factors have led to the failure of efforts at resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict? What patterns of negotiating behavior hold more promise for advancing peace in the Middle East?Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace offers a well-informed, up-to-date view of attempts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. It focuses on key negotiations from the Camp David agreements to the Oslo accords and concludes with an analysis of the Netanyahu governmentÕs negotiating tactics. Moving beyond strict historical chronology, Laura Zittrain Eisenberg and Neil Caplan construct a characterization of past negotiating practices by identifying the constellation of prior experiences, purposes, motives, timing, and psychological factors involved in each situation. The authors point to recurring factors that seem to doom negotiations and illuminate patterns that break the cycle of failure and hold more promise for moving toward an enduring peace. A generous selection of documents and a sampling of political cartoons contribute to this unique and thought-provoking presentation.

Author Biography

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is Visiting Associate Professor in the History Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948.Neil Caplan teaches in the Humanities Department at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada. His publications include Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925, The Lausanne Conference, 1949: A Case Study in Middle East Peacemaking, and Futile Democracy, a multi-volume documentary history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Note on Sources
Introduction: Historical Patterns	p. 1
Hot Wars and a Cold Peace: The Camp David Peace Process, 1977-1979	p. 28
Mission Impossible: The 1983 Israel-Lebanon Agreement	p. 43
Premature Peacemaking: The 1987 Hussein-Peres Agreement (The London Document)	p. 60
Setting the Peace Table: The Madrid Conference and Washington Talks, 1991-1993	p. 75
Out of the Shadows and into the Light: The Jordanian-Israeli Peace Process, 1993-1994	p. 90
Judgment of Solomon: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, 1993-1996	p. 103
Conclusion: Peace in the Making	p. 127
Epilogue: The Beginning of the Netanyahu-Arafat Era: June 1996-January 1997	p. 144
UN Security Council Resolution 242, 22 November 1967	p. 157
Statement to the Israeli Knesset by President Sadat, 20 November 1977	p. 158
The Camp David Accords: A Framework for Pence in the Middle East and A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, 17 September 1978	p. 169
Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel, 26 March 1979	p. 180
The Reagan Peace Plan and "Talking Points," 1 and 8 September 1982	p. 184
The Israel-Lebanon Agreement, 17 May 1983	p. 192
The Hussein-Peres Agreement (The London Document), 11 April 1987	p. 195
US-USSR Letter of Invitation to the Peace Talks in Madrid, 18 October 1991	p. 196
US Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians, 18 October 1991	p. 198
US Letter of Assurances to Israel, 18 October 1991	p. 202
Presentation of the New Government, Address to the Knesset by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 13 July 1992	p. 205
Letters Exchanged between PLO Chairman Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, and Norwegian Foreign Minister Holst, Tunis and Jerusalem, 9 September 1993	p. 210
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, 13 September 1993	p. 212
Treaty of Peace between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 26 October 1994	p. 217
Remarks by His Majesty King Hussein at the Funeral for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 6 November 1995	p. 229
Note for the Record (re: Hebron), 15 January 1997	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 247
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