Abstract
The author traces the history of the partition formula in Israel and Palestine, beginning with the 1937 British "Peel Commission" through the decades to the June War of 1967 and, almost a decade later, President Jimmy Carter's mention of a "Palestinian homeland." The Reagan Plan followed, and the 1980s witnessed a flood of political formulas that attempted to manage the conflict. In the 1990s, in the light of the post-Cold War era, a "culture of recognition and reconciliation" was introduced and with it, hopeful times. But the more recent efforts to bring the partition formula back, introduced against a background of a "New World Order" are characterized by concern about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism. The Road Map, similar to previous formulas, is examined and the Israeli and the Palestinian position are described.
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Abdul Hadi, Mahdi
(2005)
"Formulas for Partition, Fragmented Maps, Yet No Solution,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 19:
Iss.
2, Article 18.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol19/iss2/18
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