What or how much have Israeli governments offered Palestinians for peace?
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzakh Rabin and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat sign the Oslo accords The standard line of the Israeli government and its sympathisers is that the Israeli government under Yitzakh Rabin in 1993-1995 offered a fair and equitable peace settlement to the Palestinians which granted them their own land and a viable state – and that this offer was rejected by the Palestinian leadership, thus proving that they don’t want peace. Similar claims are made about the Wye accords of 1998 under Netanyahu and the failed Taba negotiations under Ehud Barak in 2001. All these claims are wildly inaccurate. (As Professor Norman Finkelstein’s knowledge of this far exceeds mine i’ll partly be summarising his account in chapter 7 of his book “Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict” – feel free to get hold of his book and check his sources) (1).
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