Documents and Information on the Israeli Palestinian Peace Process



People with a Vision


Yossi Beilin:

Beilin on Rosh Hashanah 2002.

Joint appearance Beilin Abed-Rabbo. November 2001.

Interview with Beilin on peace prospects. June 2001.

Marwan Barghouti:

Article by Marwan Barghouti in Washington Post, January 2002

Akiva Eldar on Marwan Barghoutii (January 2002)

Ben Kaspit interview with Marwan Barghouti, November 2001.

Interpreting Camp David and Taba


Akiva Eldar on investigating the Oslo process

Akiva Eldar on the Taba negociations

Palestinian Negociating Team Response to Clinton proposal from the PNA web page, January 2001

The Malley - Barak exchange in the New York Review of Books:

Barak/Morris analysis of Camp David/Taba.

Robert Malley and Hussein Agha response.

Last exchange between two sides.

Article by Akiva Eldar in Haaretz on the analysis of Menachem Klein of Bar-Ilan University of the Camp David negociations in response to the description given by Dennis Ross (second part of article).

Some Chronology

A chronology of conflict (Le Monde Diplomatique)

A chronology of suicide bombings

From CNN online 5.31.2001

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told CNN that

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "must
understand that he must choose between
settlements and peace. He cannot have both."

Erakat, calling on the Sharon government "to
return to the negotiating table unconditionally,"
added: "We need peace more than anybody else
on this earth.

"The Palestinians must recognise the state of Israel on 78 percent of the
mandatory Palestine, and accept merely 22 percent of the land. And you know
what, we said yes.

"Now, on the remaining 22 percent of what we have settled for the Sharon
government is seeking to confiscate more land to build more settlements, to
undermine any effort to establish a Palestinian state. This is the situation."

He said that the Palestinians would continue to recognize the state of Israel.

"This position stands. This position will continue to stand," he said, but added that
a political solution required an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian
territories.

"This is the shortest way for security and peace for both Palestinians and
Israelis. We're going to reach that one day, but the sooner we can do it the more
Israeli and Palestinian lives we will save."

Amira Hass on the virtual appartheid situation in Israel: All the way from the sea to the river

Gideon Levi from Ha-aretz on-line: Defining Violence.

  • Peace Now USA

  • Here you will find among others an oped by Amos Oz, reflecting the confusion
    among some of the Israeli peace camp. He criticizes the Palestinian
    response to Israeli proposals based on the premise that a withdrawl
    to 1967 borders with `minor' corrections has been offered. This is not the case. See Map below, by Faissal Husseini, and other opeds on the same Peace Now web page.

  • Official Site of the Palestinian National Authority

  • The Gush Shalom Organization

  • Documents produced by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)
  • Palestinian report on the effects of closures on PNA economy, 1997
  • PNA response to Clinton's proposals, (January, 2001)
  • PNA update on settlement activity
  • Map estimating the Israeli Camp David proposal produced by Faisall Husseini (Le Monde Diplomatique, Jan 2001)


  • This map is based on information gleaned by Husseini from the Palestinian delegation. Israel has never published a map describing the Barak offer to Arafat. However given the Clinton proposal which mentions keeping 80% of the settlers under Israeli sovereignty, and given Israel's insistence on presence in the Jordan valley this is more or less the way it would look. The article by Zvi Barel below confirms this map in terms of the infrastructure work carried out by the Israeli army in the area connecting Ariel to the green line.

  • Statement of Palestinian instellectuals to Israeli public
  • Ha'aretz report on effects of closures on PNA economy, 2000
  • Amira Haas op ed on Hebron curfew in Ha'aretz
  • Amira Haas op ed on Barak proposals in Ha'aretz
  • Report on status of Israeli Arabs
  • Gideon Levi reporting on civilian shooting policy of the IDF
  • Zvi Barel comments on targetted assassination of Palestinians by Israeli Army
  • Zvi Barel reporting on IDF operations on infrastructure around settlements
  • Yoel Marcus:

  • Well known commentator in Haaretx. Two opeds reflecting the confusion of the Israeli peace camp:
    On one hand a sever criticism of the settlement policy and the realization that
    the settlements need to be dismantled for peace. On the other hand criticizing
    Arafat for not signing in on an offer which hardly dismantles any major settlement
    and creates a West Bank partitioned in 3.
    1. op ed in Ha'aretz calling for dismantling of settlement
    2. op ed criticizing of Arafat's leadership
  • Peace Now map of settlements
  • Peace now report on settlement activity since Oslo