A Brief History of Peace: From Resolution 242 to the Historic Summer of 2020 Israel today

UN resolution building on "Palestinian issue" • Camp David Accord • Failed summit in Madrid • Oslo Accords • Peace with Jordan • Countless times Palestinians refused • Up to one month when the formula was set: "Peace for peace" • Making history

The decisions of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalize relations with Israel, sign a month of two peace agreements after decades in which Arab states failed to overcome the mistrust and hostility - most of which came from the Palestinians.

So what did we have, from 1967 to this coming Tuesday, September 15, 2020, in which agreements are expected to be signed with the United Arab Emirates and with Bahrain?

The Reuters agency is making history.

Photo: GPO

1967 UN Security Council Resolution 242

After the Six Day War, it calls for "the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the last conflict, in exchange for all the states in the region respecting each other's sovereignty."

The decision is the basis for many peace initiatives, but its inaccurate wording - does it mean all the territories or only some of them?

Dragging decades of controversy. 

Israeli Menachem Begin and Egyptian Anwar Sadat agree on a peace agreement initiative in which Israel will withdraw in stages from Sinai.

peace agreement The first peace agreement between Israel and an Arab state outlines a plan for a complete Israeli withdrawal from Sinai within three years.

In 1981, Sadat was assassinated by Islamist revolutionaries who opposed the agreement.

representatives of Israel and the organization and the PLO to participate in a conference of peace in Spain. No agreements were reached, but were achieved in direct talks. 

Jordan becoming the second Arab country signs a contract peace with Israel, despite the generally pro-Palestinian in Jordan.

Israel and the PLO hold secret talks in Norway leading to interim peace agreements calling for the establishment of a temporary Palestinian self-government, the establishment of an elected council in the West Bank and Gaza for five years, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and permanent negotiations.

US President Bill Clinton convenes Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David. They fail to agree. Another Palestinian uprising takes place. 

George W. Bush becomes the first US president to call for the establishment of a Palestinian state that will live alongside Israel "in peace and security." 

Arabian Plan presents a peace plan led by the Arab League. The plan calls for an Israeli withdrawal Full of Judea and Samaria and the establishment of a Palestinian state in exchange for relations with Arab states. In the meantime, the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia present their own roadmaps for a permanent solution based on two states. 

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and then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert fail to reach a conclusion at the US summit. Olmert will later say they were close to the deal, but events in the Gaza Strip torpedoed him. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's

says that he will be ready for a peace agreement that includes the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state. he states further conditions: Palestinian recognition of Israel state of the Jewish people. " 

peace talks in Washington collapse, US Foreign Minister John Kerry coaxing Israelis and Palestinians to resume The conversations.

June 2019 - "

Trump

President Trump announces the initial phase of his peace plan, launched in Bahrain by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

It takes an "economy first" approach, calling for the establishment of a $ 50 billion investment fund to strengthen the Arab and Palestinian economies.

The Palestinians reject the plan. 

Trump

President Trump unveils his full Middle East plan in Washington, alongside Netanyahu.

It offers American recognition of Israel's sovereignty in the West Bank and obliges the Palestinians to stop the violence in exchange for an independent state.

The Palestinians reject the plan, as do large sections of the Israeli right. 

Trump announces in complete surprise an agreement to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Sources in the Emirates claim that the deal puts an end to Israel's aspirations for annexation, but Prime Minister Netanyahu says it is only a temporary freeze.

Bahrain agreed to normalize relations with Israel, saying it would "increase stability, security and prosperity in the region." , In a joint statement with Israel and the United States.