The future Israeli-Palestinian relationship

Middle East Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 90-111

  Ma'oz, Moshe ^a   Khatib, Ghassan ^a   Dakkak, Ibrahim ^a   Katz, Yossi ^a   Sayigh, Yezid ^a   Schiff, Ze'ev ^a   Shamir, Shimon ^a   Shikaki, Khalil ^a  

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EID: 0034134783     PISSN: 10611924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4967.2000.tb00151.x     Document Type: Article

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1. The Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (Herbert C. Kelman, director; Donna Hicks, deputy director) has been supported by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. We are grateful to the Foundation and to the Center for providing the infrastructure for this work. We are also grateful to the organizations that have provided financial support for the Working Group itself: the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Charles R. Bronfman Foundation, and the U.S. Information Agency, as well as the Renner Institut in Vienna and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
2. For recent descriptions of the approach, see H. C. Kelman (1992), "Informal mediation by the scholar/ practitioner," in J. Bercovitch and J. Rubin (Eds.), Mediation in International Relations (New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 64-69); N. N. Rouhana and H. C. Kelman (1994), "Promoting joint thinking in international conflicts: An Israeli-Palestinian continuing workshop," Journal of Social Issues, 50(1), 157-178; H. C. Kelman (1996), "Negotiation as interactive problem solving," International Negotiation, 1, 99-123; and H. C. Kelman (1998), "Interactive problem solving: An approach to conflict resolution and its application in the Middle East," PS: Political Science & Politics, 31, 190-198.
3. For recent descriptions of the approach, see H. C. Kelman (1992), "Informal mediation by the scholar/ practitioner," in J. Bercovitch and J. Rubin (Eds.), Mediation in International Relations (New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 64-69); N. N. Rouhana and H. C. Kelman (1994), "Promoting joint thinking in international conflicts: An Israeli-Palestinian continuing workshop," Journal of Social Issues, 50(1), 157-178; H. C. Kelman (1996), "Negotiation as interactive problem solving," International Negotiation, 1, 99-123; and H. C. Kelman (1998), "Interactive problem solving: An approach to conflict resolution and its application in the Middle East," PS: Political Science & Politics, 31, 190-198.
4. For recent descriptions of the approach, see H. C. Kelman (1992), "Informal mediation by the scholar/ practitioner," in J. Bercovitch and J. Rubin (Eds.), Mediation in International Relations (New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 64-69); N. N. Rouhana and H. C. Kelman (1994), "Promoting joint thinking in international conflicts: An Israeli-Palestinian continuing workshop," Journal of Social Issues, 50(1), 157-178; H. C. Kelman (1996), "Negotiation as interactive problem solving," International Negotiation, 1, 99-123; and H. C. Kelman (1998), "Interactive problem solving: An approach to conflict resolution and its application in the Middle East," PS: Political Science & Politics, 31, 190-198.
5. For recent descriptions of the approach, see H. C. Kelman (1992), "Informal mediation by the scholar/ practitioner," in J. Bercovitch and J. Rubin (Eds.), Mediation in International Relations (New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 64-69); N. N. Rouhana and H. C. Kelman (1994), "Promoting joint thinking in international conflicts: An Israeli-Palestinian continuing workshop," Journal of Social Issues, 50(1), 157-178; H. C. Kelman (1996), "Negotiation as interactive problem solving," International Negotiation, 1, 99-123; and H. C. Kelman (1998), "Interactive problem solving: An approach to conflict resolution and its application in the Middle East," PS: Political Science & Politics, 31, 190-198.
6. We take this opportunity to thank Donna Hicks, Kate Rouhana, Rose Kelman, Winnifred O'Toole, and Nancy McDonald, who contributed to the production of this paper at various stages and by various means, including administration, meeting facilitation, documentation, note taking, and processing of the manuscript.
7. See "General Principles for the Final Israeli-Palestinian Agreement," developed by the Joint Working Group on Israeli-Palestinian Relations. Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1998. This document can also be found in the Winter 1999 issue of Middle East Journal, 53(1), 170-175.
8. J. Alpher and K. Shikaki with the participation of the additional members of the Joint Working Group on Israeli Palestinian Relations (1998), "The Palestinian Refugee Problem and the Right of Return." Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Working Paper No. 98-7. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, p. 28. This concept paper was also published in February 1999 in Middle East Policy, 6(3), 167-189.
9. J. Alpher and K. Shikaki with the participation of the additional members of the Joint Working Group on Israeli Palestinian Relations (1998), "The Palestinian Refugee Problem and the Right of Return." Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Working Paper No. 98-7. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, p. 28. This concept paper was also published in February 1999 in Middle East Policy, 6(3), 167-189.
10. This option does not refer to the possibility of a state that is "binational" only in the sense of providing municipal and cultural autonomy to Palestinian towns and villages without giving Palestinians full and equal political and civil rights. Such an arrangement would be rejected as an apartheid state by Palestinians, other Arabs, many Jews, and most of the world community.
11. This poll was conducted by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University.
12. These findings, also from a Steinmetz Center poll, are cited in an unpublished paper by Michael Brecher.
13. These data were obtained in opinion polls conducted by the Center for Palestine Research and Studies (CPRS) in Nablus.
14. These data were also obtained in CPRS polls.
15. In developing cooperative relations with each other (at this stage, as well as at later stages), it is necessary for each side to understand the importance to the other of maintaining relationships to various outside parties. Thus, for both Palestinians and Israelis it is important to foster their separate relations with their respective diasporas, as well as with different parts of the world at large. For the Palestinian state, it is particularly important to promote political, economic, and cultural ties with other Arab nations, which underlines its need for free access to Jordan and Egypt.
16. One of many examples of such joint activities is a project initiated by Herbert Pundak (former editor of the Danish daily, Politiken) in 1994, which offers Palestinian doctors advanced medical training in various areas of specialization in Israeli hospitals. Another example, in a rather different arena, is provided by EcoPeace, an umbrella organization that represents Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian environmental NGOs, with a joint Palestinian-Israeli office in Jerusalem; one of its key concerns is preservation of the Dead Sea basin.
17. A step in that direction is represented by a joint Israeli-Palestinian project, sponsored by the Truman Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which analyzes the treatment of Palestinian-Jewish relations and the perception of the "other" in Palestinian and Israeli textbooks in history and civics over the past decades. Another step is the Joint Committee stipulated in the Wye Memorandum in October 1998 to examine instances of incitement in textbooks and the media, which has now been reactivated.