POLI 347 Chapter Notes - Chapter QUANDT: Brookings Institution, Palestine Liberation Army, Six-Day War
19 Dec 2018
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Week 8: diplomacy and external actors during the cold war. Intractable/divergent objectives from both sides *both unwilling to concede on crux issues. Israeli perspective: unwilling to accommodate return of hundreds of thousands of. Palestinians who fled in 1948-1949 because this would threaten the. Jewishness (and therefore democracy) and security of the israeli state: arab perspective, unwilling to recognize the jewish state without israeli restoration of. Palestinian rights: nasser: arab nationalism *sought to unify arab world around, the 1967 war: a watershed moment in the conflict. Palestinian cause (mid 1950"s: results, huge israeli victory: exerted military prowess over egypt, jordan and syria. Israel gained control over: the sinai desert, the west bank of the jordan. River, east jerusalem, gaza and strategically important golan heights: more than 1mil palestinians came under israeli control ~acute dilemma. If israel granted palestinians full rights it would become a binational state. In return, implied that some form peace would be offered to israel (end of belligerency)
