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From rejection to acceptance : Israeli national security thinking and Palestinian statehood /

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Israeli national thinking on Palestinian statehood has gone from total rejection to broad acceptance. How will this evolving thinking play a role in restarting Israel-Palestinian negotiations?

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brom, Shlomo
Corporate Author: United States Institute of Peace
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace, 2007.
Series:Special report (United States Institute of Peace) ; 177.
Subjects:
Arab-Israeli conflict > 1993- > Peace.
National security > Israel.
Palestine > Politics and government.
Nationalism > Palestine.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Bargaining chips, defensible borders, and the Jordanian option
  • The rise of Likud and the idea of "greater Israel"
  • The first Intifada
  • The Oslo process, mutual recognition, and negotiations over statehood
  • The collapse of the Oslo process
  • The effect of the withdrawal from southern Lebanon and the Hezbollah War
  • Israeli security thinking and the Hamas election victory
  • The rise of demography
  • Why Israel needs a viable Palestinian state
  • The nature of the Palestinian state and its relationship with Israel
  • How do we get to a Palestinian state?
  • The role of third parties
  • Conclusions and recommendations
  • The future evolution of Israeli thinking.