HIST 294 Lecture 17: Week 9 Monday: The Oslo Peace Project
24 Aug 2016
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Starting to see divide > very rich, very poor. Lecout party has no interest in organizing plo as legit rep. of pal"s: increasing settlement construction in west bank and gaza. International conference: shamir: israel would be in weak negotiating position, want strength for bilateral negotiations, paris: to go ahead with policy, needed support of lecout party. Shamir/ lecout party in position of power to seek jordanian option. Intifada: the outbreak of a popular uprising by palestinians against israelis in the west. On dec 8 1987, an accident in which an idf transport vehicle in gaza killed 4. This event was followed by anti-israeli demonstrations and rioting that spread rapidly throughout the territories. With no relief or political solution on the horizon and with the persistence of settlement construction, popular disillusionment extended to the plo and fatah from tunisia. New radical forces started to emerge inside the territories as active competitors for the loyalty of the pal public: hamas (founded 1988)
