Perils of Parity: Palestine's Permanent Transition

The Oslo Accords: A Veneer of Israeli Dominance over the Occupied Palestinian Territories? , 2019

The paper looks into the extent to which the the Oslo Accord framework has rendered the Palestinian Authority a veneer of continued Israeli dominance and control over the Palestinian territories. Barrowing the words of Edward Said, this paper examines how the PLO-Israeli arrangement had “perpetual subservience to Israel (as) its goal.” In order to assess this, the paper firstly examines how Israel´s legal and political strategy since 1967 was to reconcile its demographic Jewish state while placing its control over the West Bank and how this strategy was perpetuated through the framework of the peace process. Secondly, the paper examines how security cooperation served as a means to perpetuate Israeli dominance and control over Palestinian bodies under the disguise of the peace process. Lastly, the paper address the legal buffer between the status quo and apartheid. The paper argues that, by devolving limited responsibility to the Palestinian Authority for direct forms of surveillance of the Palestinian people, conditional on an end of resistance, the peace process has brought Palestinians more under Israeli thumb while allowing the latter to further its colonial project in the Palestinian territories.

Shofar, 2002

euro@Mesco Spot On, 2022

The Abraham Accords reflect a paradigmatic change in the geo-political and strategic order in the Middle East and could be leveraged to create a breakthrough in the Israeli-Palestinian political stalemate by establishing a broader regional envelope. Broadening and enlarging the regional framework is actually changing the existing paradigm, which is bilateral by its essence. Establishing and operating a regional system based on meaningful cooperation between the players creates mutual dependence that contributes to better understanding and strategic cooperation that leads to more security and stability. Due to the continuing political stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian political process, the establishment of the regional system that includes the Palestinians enables Israel and the Palestinians to make some mutual essential concessions that they have failed to make in the bilateral track. The role of the European Union (EU) should be explored in terms of its contribution to the creation and facilitation of the system, which could potentially contribute to the resumption and advancement of the political process between Israel and the Palestinians.

Peace and Conflict Studies, 2012

In this paper, I explore the prenegotiation process between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which extended over eight months in 1993 and ended with the signing of the Declaration of Principles (DOP) in September of that year. During this period, the parties committed to recognize each other and conduct future negotiations with the aim of ending a century of conflict. The DOP was considered a significant breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian relations. Scholars of Conflict Resolution typically view the discussions that led to the DOP as a positive example of how antagonists in ethno-national conflicts begin a course of constructive dialogue and conciliation. Applying prenegotiation theory, I question this assumption and argue that the prenegotiation process that took place between January and August 1993 leading the parties to commit to official negotiations and sign the DOP was in fact no more than a means of conflict management adjusting to contemporary circum...

Macalester International, 2009

In this paper, I analyze the Oslo Accords and the interests of Israel and the Palestinian Authority. I also aim to show that the continuous failure of United States led talks to secure peace in the Middle East despite is explained through Hans Morgenthau’s principles, whose realist approach contends that states are the most important actors in the international arena. Hence agreements between nations that involve making compromises over their core national-security interests and values will never be achieved through outside pressure.