Making Peace With The Plo: The Rabin Government's Road To The Oslo Accord

by Makovsky,David

• ISBN13: 9780813324265
• ISBN10: 0813324262
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780429978722
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• Copyright: 1995-12-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

After decades of branding Yasser Arafat an arch-terrorist, Israel has embraced the PLO leader as a partner for peace. In this study of one of the most extraordinary examples of secret diplomacy in the second half of the twentieth century, David Makovsky, diplomatic correspondent for theJerusalem Post,explores the personal, domestic, regional, and international factors that led Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and other top aides to negotiate the peace accords.Makovsky traces key episodes prior to the breakthrough in Osloincluding Israel's deportation of radical Islamic activists in December 1992 and its retaliation against Hizbollah rocket attacks from south Lebanon in July 1993and examines their impact on the fateful decisions that led to the remarkable diplomatic achievement. Working from exclusive interviews with dozens of Israeli, Palestinian, American, and Egyptian officials, Makovsky depicts in fascinating detail the intricacies of the Israel-PLO bargaining. He also examines lessons learned about Israeli decisionmaking from the Oslo experience and assesses the influence of the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan on the implementation of the Israel-PLO accord.

Author Biography

David Makovsky is the diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and a special correspondent for U.S. News and World Report. He was the 1994 corecipient of the National Press Club’s Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue	p. 1
The Unforeseen Peace Process	p. 13
Drafting the Declaration of Principles	p. 31
Upgrading the Oslo Talks	p. 45
Brinkmanship	p. 59
The Israeli Political Environment	p. 83
International and Regional Changes	p. 107
Rabin's Personal Road to Oslo	p. 117
The Lessons of Oslo	p. 129
Epilogue	p. 143
Appendix I: Security Council Resolution 242	p. 167
Appendix II: The Camp David Accords	p. 169
Appendix III: The Reagan Peace Initiative	p. 175
Appendix IV: Reagan's Talking Points	p. 177
Appendix V: The London Agreement	p. 181
Appendix VI: The Shultz Initiative	p. 183
Appendix VII: Israeli Government Peace Initiative	p. 185
Appendix VIII: The U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference	p. 191
Appendix IX: The Israeli Labor Party Platform	p. 193
Appendix X: U.S. Proposal for Israeli-Palestinian Statement	p. 195
Appendix XI: Rabin's Letter to Arafat Recognizing the PLO	p. 199
Appendix XII: Arafat's Letter to Rabin Recognizing Israel's Right to Exist in Peace	p. 201
Appendix XIII: Arafat's Letter to Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst on the Intifada	p. 203
Appendix XIV: The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles	p. 205
Appendix XV: Excerpts from Speeches at the Secret Oslo Signing Ceremony	p. 219
Appendix XVI: Rabin's Speech at the DOP Signing Ceremony	p. 223
Appendix XVII: Arafat's Speech at the DOP Signing Ceremony	p. 225
Appendix XVIII: Clinton's Speech at the DOP Signing Ceremony	p. 227
Appendix XIX: Peres' Letter to Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst on the Status of Jerusalem	p. 231
Appendix XX: Senior Israeli Officials Who Report Directly to Rabin	p. 233
Chronology	p. 235
About the Book and Author	p. 241
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