The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the early 20th century over issues such as borders, control of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, and Palestinian refugees. In 1993, the Oslo I agreement was signed between Israel and the PLO, but peace has remained elusive. Solutions proposed include a one-state or two-state solution, but both sides currently lack willingness to negotiate. Lessons from the Oslo process show that breakthroughs take time, multiple tracks of business and regional cooperation could help, and while US involvement is not necessary, another country stepping in may impact renewing negotiations.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the early 20th century over issues such as borders, control of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, and Palestinian refugees. In 1993, the Oslo I agreement was signed between Israel and the PLO, but peace has remained elusive. Solutions proposed include a one-state or two-state solution, but both sides currently lack willingness to negotiate. Lessons from the Oslo process show that breakthroughs take time, multiple tracks of business and regional cooperation could help, and while US involvement is not necessary, another country stepping in may impact renewing negotiations.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the early 20th century over issues such as borders, control of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, and Palestinian refugees. In 1993, the Oslo I agreement was signed between Israel and the PLO, but peace has remained elusive. Solutions proposed include a one-state or two-state solution, but both sides currently lack willingness to negotiate. Lessons from the Oslo process show that breakthroughs take time, multiple tracks of business and regional cooperation could help, and while US involvement is not necessary, another country stepping in may impact renewing negotiations.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the early 20th century over issues such as borders, control of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, and Palestinian refugees. In 1993, the Oslo I agreement was signed between Israel and the PLO, but peace has remained elusive. Solutions proposed include a one-state or two-state solution, but both sides currently lack willingness to negotiate. Lessons from the Oslo process show that breakthroughs take time, multiple tracks of business and regional cooperation could help, and while US involvement is not necessary, another country stepping in may impact renewing negotiations.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the early 20th century.
Borders, control of Jerusalem, Israeli
settlements, water rights, finding a resolution to the Palestinian refugee question – are the main issues connected to this conflict. On September 13 1993, the Oslo I agreement between Israel and Palestine Liberation Organisation was symbolically sealed. The Oslo I agreement was perceived at the time as finding peace and justice in Palestine-Israel, but this conflict still remains one of the most acute conflicts in the world no matter how many years have passed. One thing is for sure, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is stagnating. Growing pessimism, the lack of trust and as well as lack of willingness. Neither side wants to renew negotiations. Yet, there are the potential solutions that can divided into two categories. The first is “One State Solution”, also called the “bi-national state”. This would create one democratic state in which both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs would live as citizens with equal rights. The second is “Two State Solution”. This plan would create two states for two peoples, Israel and Palestine, but reaching agreement on things like borders and Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees will be too complicated. Today, that concept seems so far from reality. So there is “The third-way solution”, which means the model of two independent states but with an open border, a shared Jerusalem. All this solutions face the same problem: it is impossible to do, as sides are not negotiation with each other. If we look back to the past, we will see some lessons that we can learn from Oslo. Firstly, breakthroughs take time to prepare; focuses on official interactions and meetings. secondly, drawing on multiple tracks will be more profitable. Israeli and Palestinian businesspeople can play a key role in developing policy as well as regional cooperation; Thirdly, there are enough ideas already out there to draw on from historic Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; so main goal is to get both states to the table.
And fourthly, the involvement of US is not compulsory, because as history shows
other countries can step in, to impact on renewing negotiations and peace process between Israel-Palestine and get these two states on the same table.