scholarly journals The Forgotten Palestinians: East Jerusalem and the Oslo Peace Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-106
Author(s):  
Hania Walid Assali
Keyword(s):  
Peace Process ◽  
East Jerusalem

Israel's Settlement-Policy Stumbling-Block in the Middle East Peace Process

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 825-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL J. I. M. DE WAART
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Law ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Special Rapporteur ◽  
The West ◽  
Lasting Peace ◽  
Settlement Policy ◽  
Hard Truth ◽  
Palestinian Territory ◽  
East Jerusalem

According to Israel's Guide to the Mideast Peace Process, charges regarding the illegality of Israeli settlements in the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) have no foundation in international law. Peace efforts between Israel and Palestine will have no chance of success as long as Israel uses its prolonged military occupation to promote and protect its annexation-in-disguise of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. John Dugard has passed on this hard truth consistently as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT. The international community should take the same hard line towards the Guide as it has done towards the Hamas Charter. If it wants to establish a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, it should not allow Israel to bend the truth any more in respect of the legality of the Israeli settlements in the OPT as Hamas has done in respect of the illegality of Israel.

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