The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Lukacs, Yehuda; International Center for Peace in the Middle East

• ISBN13: 9780521375979
• ISBN10: 0521375975
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has generated a vast quantity of documents from many quarters and a plethora of suggestions for its resolution. No comparable regional conflict has been subject to such scrutiny or given rise to such radically different interpretations of the same basic facts. Any serious analysis of the conflict demands a thorough familiarity with its documentary history. This collection, compiled and edited by Yehuda Lukacs, brings together in one volume key documents and statements of the position of the parties directly and indirectly involved: Israel, the Palestinians, the Arab states, the United States, the Soviet Union, the European Community and the United Nations. This book covers the period 1967-1990. It begins with UN Security Council Resolution 242 and ends with documents pertaining to Israel's 1989 West Bank elections proposal, Egypt's Ten Point Plan, and US Secretary of State James Baker's Five Point Proposal for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
I. International Documents & Joint Declarations
UN Security Council Resolution 242, 22 November, 1967	1	(1)
Questionnaire by UN Special Representative Gunnar Jarring to the Governments of Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon, with Replies, March 1969	2	(11)
UN Security Council Resolution 338, 23 October, 1973	13	(1)
Statement by The European Community Foreign Ministers, Brussels, 6 November, 1973	13	(2)
UN General Assembly Resolution 3236, 22 November, 1974	15	(1)
Joint Statement by the Governments of the US and the USSR, 1 October, 1977	16	(1)
Statement on the Problem in the Middle East, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, 25 September, 1979	17	(1)
The Venice European Declaration, 13 June, 1980	17	(2)
Soviet Communist Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev's Position on Arab-Israeli Peace, 23 February, 1981	19	(1)
The Brezhnev Peace Plan, 15 September, 1982	20	(1)
The Soviet Union's Proposals on a Middle East Settlement, 29 July, 1984	21	(3)
Moroccan-Israeli Joint Declaration, Following Prime Minister Shimon Peres' Visit to Morocco, Rabat and Jerusalem, 24 July, 1986	24	(1)
The Alexandria Declaration by President Husni Mubarak and Prime Minister Shimon Peres, 12 September, 1986	25	(1)
UN General Assembly Resolution 41/43 D, 2 December, 1986	25	(2)
The Brussels European Declaration, 23 February, 1987	27	(1)
The London Agreement Between Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein, 11 April, 1987	28	(1)
Speech of President Mikhail Gorbachev on Relations with Israel, 24 April, 1987	29	(1)
UN Security Council Resolution 605, 22 December, 1987	30	(1)
UN Security Council Resolution 607, 5 January, 1988	31	(1)
UN Security Council Resolution 608, 14 January, 1988	32	(1)
Statement on the Middle East by President Mikhail Gorbachev Following the Moscow Summit, 1 June, 1988	32	(1)
Joint Statement by Yasser Arafat and a Group of Five American Jews, Stockholm, 7 December, 1988	33	(1)
UN General Assembly Resolution A/43/L.53, Geneva, 14 December, 1988	34	(2)
UN General Assembly Resolution A/43/L.54, Geneva, 14 December, 1988	36	(1)
Statement by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valdimir Petrovsky to the UN General Assembly, Geneva, 14 December, 1988	36	(2)
Statement by the Soviet Foreign Ministry on the Beginning of the American Dialogue with the PLO, 18 December, 1988	38	(1)
``Near East: Chance for a Historic Compromise,'' Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Cairo, 23 February, 1989	39	(12)
Joint Statement by New Outlook and Al-Fajr, New York, 13 March, 1989	51	(1)
The Madrid European Declaration, 27 June, 1989	51	(3)
II. US Documents
President Johnson, Statement on Principles for Peace, 19 June, 1967	54	(1)
The Rogers Plan, 9 December, 1969	55	(5)
Memorandum of Agreement between the Governments of Israel and the United States, September 1975	60	(1)
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Harold H. Saunders, Statement on the Palestinians, 12 November, 1975	61	(4)
``Toward Peace in the Middle East,'' Brookings Institution Report, December 1975	65	(2)
Ambassador William W. Scranton, Statements on Occupied Territories, 23 March, 1976	67	(2)
President Jimmy Carter, on Middle East Peace, 16 March, 1977	69	(2)
President Jimmy Carter, Statement on Recognition of Palestinians, 4 January, 1978	71	(1)
President Ronald Reagan Peace Plan, 1 September, 1982	72	(6)
Text of `Talking Points' Sent to Prime Minister Menachem Begin by President Ronald Reagan, 8 September, 1982	78	(2)
Statement by President Ronald Reagan on the Establishment of New Israeli Settlements, 27 August, 1983	80	(1)
US Policy on an International Middle East Peace Conference, 13 January, 1984	81	(1)
Statement by State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb on the Legitimate Rights of the Palestinian People, 15 February, 1985	82	(1)
Statement by Secretary of State George Shultz on Jordan and the Peace Process, 19 June, 1985	83	(3)
Statement by State Department Spokesman Charles Redman on the Breakdown of the Hussein-Arafat Peace Initiative, 20 February, 1986	86	(1)
Statement by President Ronald Reagan on an International Peace Conference, 18 February, 1987	87	(1)
Speech by Secretary of State George Shultz before American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Washington, DC, 17 May, 1987	87	(4)
``Toward Arab-Israeli Peace,'' Report of A Study Group, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1988	91	(3)
``Building for Peace: An American Strategy for the Middle East,'' The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Presidential Study Group, 1988	94	(6)
``A Statement for Palestinians,'' Secretary of State George Shultz, East Jerusalem, 26 February, 1988	100	(1)
US Senators' Letter to Secretary of State George Shultz, 3 March, 1988	101	(2)
Letter from Secretary of State George Shultz to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 4 March, 1988	103	(1)
``This is the Plan,'' Secretary of State George Shultz's Peace Proposal, 18 March, 1988	104	(2)
Arrival Statements by Secretary of State George Shultz During his Visit to the Middle East, Cairo, 3 June, 1988; Amman, 4 June, 1988; Tel Aviv, 5 June, 1988	106	(3)
Address by Secretary of State George Shultz Before the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 16 September, 1988	109	(6)
Statement by State Department Spokesman Charles Redman on the Resolutions of the 19th Palestine National Council, 16 November, 1988	115	(1)
Statement by the State Department on the Rejection of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's Visa Application to the US, 26 November, 1988	115	(2)
Statement by State Department Spokesman Charles Redman on Yasser Arafat's Speech to the UN, 13 December, 1988	117	(1)
Address by Ambassador Vernon A. Walters to the 43rd Session of the UN General Assembly, Geneva, 14 December, 1988	117	(2)
Statement by Secretary of State George Schultz on Dialogue with the PLO, 14 December, 1988	119	(1)
Statement by President Ronald Reagan on Relations with the PLO, 14 December, 1988	120	(1)
Statement by President George Bush Following his Meeting with President Husni Mubarak, Washington, DC, 3 April, 1989	120	(2)
Statement by President George Bush Following his Meeting with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Washington, DC, 6 April, 1989	122	(1)
Address by Secretary of State James Baker Before the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Washington, DC, 22 May, 1989	123	(6)
Letter to Secretary of State James Baker from 95 US Senators, Washington, DC, 8 June, 1989	129	(2)
Letter to Secretary of State James Baker from 68 US Senators, Washington, DC, 21 September, 1989	131	(2)
Secretary of State James Baker's Five Point Plan, 10 October, 1989	133	(1)
Statement by President George Bush on Jewish Settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palm Springs, CA, 3 March, 1990	133	(1)
Statement by President George Bush on Suspension of the Dialogue Between the US and the PLO, 20 June, 1990	134	(2)
III. Sadat's Visit and the Autonomy Negotiations
Statement to the Israeli Knesset by President Sadat, 20 November, 1977	136	(11)
Prime Minister Menachem Begin Knesset Speech, 20 November, 1977	147	(6)
Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Autonomy Plan, 28 December, 1977	153	(2)
A Framework for Peace in the Middle East Agreed at Camp David, 17 September, 1978	155	(5)
Government of Egypt, Proposed Model of Full Autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 28 January, 1980	160	(6)
Israel's Autonomy Proposal, January 1982	166	(5)
IV. Israeli Documents
Principles Guiding Israel's Policy in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, 9 August, 1967	171	(1)
The Nine-Point Peace Plan, Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban, 8 October, 1968	172	(9)
Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Knesset Statement on Occupied Territories, 13 May, 1969	181	(1)
Statement by the Israeli Government Embodying a Reaction to the US Secretary of State William Rogers Peace Plan, 11 December, 1969	182	(1)
Resolution Adopted by the Israeli Knesset Rejecting King Hussein's United Arab Kingdom Plan, 16 March, 1972	183	(1)
The ``Galili Plan''---Statement by Government Ministers of the Israeli Labor Party on Proposed Policy in the Occupied Territories, August 1973	184	(3)
Statement Issued by Israel's Cabinet Insisting that Jordan Represents the Palestinians in Negotiations, 21 July, 1974	187	(1)
Statement by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Following the Rabat Conference, 5 November, 1974	188	(2)
The Allon Plan, Article by Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon Reiterating his Plan for Peace, October 1976	190	(8)
Statement Issued by the Government of Israel Responding to the US-USSR Joint Declaration on the Middle East, 1 October, 1977	198	(1)
Law Enacted by Israel's Knesset Proclaiming Jerusalem the Capital of Israel, 29 July, 1980	198	(1)
Fundamental Policy Guidelines of the Government of Israel as Approved by the Knesset, 5 August, 1981	199	(1)
Text of Israel's Communique on the Reagan Plan, 2 September, 1982	200	(3)
Basic Policy Guidelines of the Government of Israel, 13 September, 1984	203	(2)
Statement by Prime Minister Shimon Peres on Negotiations with Jordan, 10 June, 1985	205	(5)
Address by Prime Minister Shimon Peres to the UN General Assembly, 21 October, 1985	210	(1)
``Outline for Advancement of Negotiations Between the Likud and the PLO,'' by Moshe Amirav, September 1987	211	(2)
Address by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to the UN General Assembly, 30 September, 1987	213	(2)
Statement by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir on Yasser Arafat's Speech to the UN, 13 December, 1988	215	(1)
Statement by the Israeli Foreign Ministry on the Decisions of the 19th Palestine National Council, 15 November, 1988	216	(2)
Basic Policy Guidelines of the Government of Israel, 23 December, 1988	218	(2)
Address by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to the Knesset, 23 December, 1988	220	(3)
Statement by the Board of Trustees of the International Center for Peace in the Middle East, Tel Aviv, 14 January, 1989	223	(1)
``Israel, the West Bank and Gaza: Toward a Solution,'' Report by a Study Group, Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1989	224	(12)
A Peace Initiative by the Government of Israel, 14 May, 1989	236	(3)
Statement by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir on the Israeli Peace Initiative, 17 May, 1989	239	(5)
Address by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to the Likud Party's Central Committee, 5 July, 1989	244	(10)
The Government of Israel's ``Assumptions'' with Regard to Secretary of State James Baker's Peace Plan, 5 November, 1989	254	(1)
Address by the Labor Party's Leader Shimon Peres Proposing a Non-Confidence Motion tot he Knesset, 15 March, 1990	254	(6)
Address by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir at the Knesset in Response to the Non-Confidence Motion, 15 March, 1990	260	(8)
Basic Policy Guidelines of the Government of Israel, 10 June, 1990	268	(3)
V. Platforms of Israeli Parties Represented in the Knesset
Agudat Israel Party Platform, 1988	271	(1)
The Arab Democratic Party Platform, 1988	271	(1)
The Degel Hatorah Party Platform, 1988	272	(1)
The Hadash Party Platform, 1988	272	(2)
The Labor-Alignment Party Platform, 1988	274	(2)
The Likud Party Platform, 1988	276	(1)
The Mafdal Party Platform, 1988	277	(1)
The Mapam Party Platform, 1988	278	(2)
The Merkaz-Shinui Movement Platform, 1988	280	(1)
The Moledet Movement Platform, 1988	281	(1)
The Progressive List for Peace Platform, 1988	281	(2)
The Ratz Party Platform, 1988	283	(2)
The Shas Party Platform, 1988	285	(1)
The Tehiya Party Platform, 1988	286	(3)
The Tzomet Party Platform, 1988	289	(1)
VI. Palestinian Documents
Statement Issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization Rejecting UN Resolution 242, 23 November, 1967	290	(1)
The Palestine National Covenant, 1968	291	(4)
Palestine National Assembly Political Resolutions, 17 July, 1968	295	(6)
Palestine National Council Statement, 13 July, 1971	301	(2)
Palestine National Council, Political Program, 12 January, 1973	303	(4)
Statements by General Secretary of the PDFLP Naif Hawatmah Defending the Establishment of a Palestinian National Authority in Territories Liberated from Israeli Occupation, 24 February, 1974	307	(1)
Palestine National Council, Political Program, 8 June, 1974	308	(4)
Statement by the PFLP Announcing its Withdrawal from the Executive Committee of the PLO, 26 September, 1974	312	(5)
Speech by Yasser Arafat to the UN General Assembly, 13 November, 1974	317	(16)
Palestine National Council, Political Declaration, 22 March, 1977	333	(2)
Six-Point Programme Agreed to by the Various Palestinian Organizations Calling for the Formation of a ``Steadfastness and Confrontation Front'' in Opposition to Sadat's Negotiations with Israel, 4 December, 1977	335	(1)
Statement by West Bank Mayors on Sadat's Visit to Israel, 21 December, 1977	336	(2)
Statement by the West Bank National Conference, Beit Hanina, 1 October, 1978	338	(1)
Palestine National Council, Political and Organizational Program, 23 January, 1979	339	(5)
Letter from PLO Executive Committee to Delegate Walter Fauntroy, 5 October, 1979	344	(1)
The Fourth General Conference of the Palestine Liberation Movement, Fatah, Political Program, 31 May, 1980	345	(5)
Palestinian National Council, Political Statement, 21 April, 1981	350	(7)
Committee for the Occupied Homeland Report on Contact with Jews, 21 April, 1981	357	(1)
Palestinian National Council Political Resolutions, 22 February, 1983	357	(7)
Palestine National Council, Political Statement, Amman, 29 November, 1984	364	(4)
Statement by the PLO's Executive Committee on the Amman Accord, 19 February, 1985	368	(2)
Declaration by Yasser Arafat on Terrorism, Cairo, 7 November, 1985	370	(1)
The PLO's Three Proposals on the Peace Process, 5 February, 1986	371	(2)
PLO Executive Committee Statement, 7 March, 1986	373	(11)
Statement by the PLO Executive Committee Cancelling the Amman Accord, 19 April, 1987	384	(1)
Palestine National Council, Resolutions of the Political Committee, Algiers, 26 April, 1987	385	(5)
Communique of the Intifadah No. 1, 8 January, 1988	390	(1)
Statement by the PLO Central Committee, 9 January, 1988	391	(4)
The Uprising Leadership's Message to the Arab Summit in Algiers, 7 June, 1988	395	(2)
``PLO View: Prospects of a Palestinian-Israeli Settlement,'' by PLO Spokesman Bassam Abu Sharif, 18 June, 1988	397	(3)
The Covenant of Hamas (The Islamic Resistance Movement in the West Bank), 18 August, 1988	400	(3)
Address of Yasser Arafat to the European Parliament, Strasbourg, 13 September, 1988	403	(8)
The Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November, 1988	411	(4)
Palestine National Council, Political Communique, Algiers, 15 November, 1988	415	(5)
Address by Yasser Arafat to the UN General Assembly, Geneva, 13 December, 1988	420	(14)
Yasser Arafat's Geneva Press Statement, 15 December, 1988	434	(1)
Letter to Secretary of State George Shultz and Statement by Palestinian Institutions and Personalities from the West Bank and Gaza, Jerusalem, 27 January, 1988	435	(3)
Address by Salah Khalaf to the International Center for Peace in the Middle East, 22 February, 1989 (via videotape)	438	(3)
Fateh Fifth General Congress, Political Program, 8 August, 1989	441	(3)
Statement by the PLO's Central Council, Baghdad, 16 October, 1989	444	(3)
Reply by the PLO to Secretary of State James Baker's Five Point Plan, 1 December, 1989	447	(2)
Letter Sent by Yasser Arafat to the Emergency World Jewish Leadership Peace Conference Organized by the International Center for Peace in the Middle East, Jerusalem, 17 February, 1990	449	(5)
VII. Arab Documents
The Arab League Summit Conference Resolutions, Khartoum, 1 September, 1967	454	(1)
Jordanian King Hussein's Peace Plan, 28 April, 1969	455	(1)
The Cairo and Melkart Agreements, Regulation of the PLO Presence in Lebanon, 3 November, 1969, 17 May, 1973	456	(5)
Jordanian King Hussein's Federation Plan, 15 March, 1972	461	(2)
Arab League Summit Conference, Secret Resolutions, Algiers, 4 December, 1973	463	(1)
Arab League Summit Conference Communique, Rabat, 29 October, 1974	464	(1)
Statement by President Bourguiba of Tunisia Calling for a Settlement of the Arab-Israeli Conflict on the Basis of the 1947 UN Partition Resolution, 26 October, 1976	465	(1)
Arab League Summit Conference Declaration, Tripoli, 5 December, 1977	466	(3)
Summit of Anti-Sadat ``Steadfastness and Confrontation Front'', Damascus, 23 September, 1978	469	(1)
Arab League Summit Conference, Final Statement, Baghdad, 5 November, 1978	470	(3)
Arab League Summit Conference Resolutions, Baghdad, 31 March, 1979	473	(4)
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Peace Plan, 6 August, 1981	477	(1)
Arab League Summit Statement, Fez, 6 September, 1982	478	(1)
Joint Jordanian-Palestinian Committee Communique, 14 December, 1982	479	(1)
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Statement on Israel's Right to a Secure State, 2 January, 1983	480	(1)
Jordanian Statement on end of Negotiations with the PLO, 10 April, 1983	480	(5)
Address by King Hussein to the 17th Session of the Palestine National Council, Amman, 22 November, 1984	485	(3)
The Jordanian-Palestinian Accord, Amman, 11 February, 1985	488	(1)
Address by King Hussein to The American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, 2 June, 1985	489	(3)
Arab Summit League, Final Communique, Casablanca, 9 August, 1985	492	(2)
Address by King Hussein to the 40th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 27 September, 1985	494	(5)
Syrian-Jordanian Joint Communique, 13 November, 1985	499	(1)
Address by King Hussein on Middle East Peace, 19 February, 1986	499	(14)
Statement by the Government of Jordan on Closing the PLO Offices, 7 July, 1986	513	(1)
Statement by the Government of Jordan on the PLO's Cancellation of the Amman Accord, 21 April, 1987	514	(1)
Address by King Hussein to the Arab League Summit Conference, Amman, 8 November, 1987	515	(2)
Resolutions of the Arab League Summit Conference, Amman, 11 November, 1987	517	(1)
Resolutions of the Arab League Summit Conference, Algiers, 9 June, 1988	518	(2)
Address by King Hussein on Jordan's Disengagement from the West Bank, 31 July, 1988	520	(5)
Statement by Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai on the Implementation of Jordan's Disengagement from the West Bank, 20 August, 1988	525	(2)
Address by Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz to the UN General Assembly, Geneva, 13 December, 1988	527	(1)
Address by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismat Abd al-Maguid to the UN General Assembly, Geneva, 13 December, 1988	528	(4)
Address by Jordanian Foreign Minister Tahir al-Masri to the UN General Assembly, Geneva, 13 December, 1988	532	(2)
Resolutions of the Arab League Summit Conference, Casablanca, 26 May, 1989	534	(3)
President Husni Mubarak's Ten Point Peace Plan, 2 July, 1989	537	(1)
Statement by Farouk Al-Shara' Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN General Assembly, New York, 3 October, 1989	538	(1)
The Government of Egypt's ``Assumptions'' With Regard to Secretary of State James Baker's Five Point Plan, 5 December, 1989	539	(1)
Statement by the League of Arab States on the Settlement of Soviet Jewish Emigrants in the Occupied Territories and South Lebanon, Tunis, 13 March, 1990	539	(1)
Arab Summit League Final Statement, Baghdad, 30 May, 1990	540	(5)
Notes	545