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In international diplomacy there is a pervasive idea that it is possible and necessary to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza that will exist side by side with Israel. Many Israelis and Palestinians want this and believe in it. But the forces working against this possibility are many and powerful. Israeli governments have enabled the settlement of over half a million Jews beyond the 1967 borders. This represents almost 10 percent of the Jews in Israel. About 300,000 of them live in settlements in the West Bank and about 200,000 are in the Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. There are those among them who will fight with all their strength to prevent an Israeli withdrawal and the establishment of a Palestinian state. But what is no less important is that on the Palestinian side as well a new situation has emerged. National unity has dissolved, the national movement has atrophied and declined, and the idea has become acceptable that if there won't be two states for two peoples, it is better that there be one state.

Discusses how, despite rhetoric indicating broad support to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are forces at work pushing for a single binational state. While factors on the Israeli side play into this -- eg, the settlement movement -- it is argued that key to this situation is the decline in the Palestinian nationalist movement. D. Edelman

Examines the deepening rift between Yasir Arafat and Qaddumi, head of the PLO Foreign Bureau, who has stuck to a hard-line approach to Israel and wishes to replace the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and Jericho.

It is argued that even though the essence of the Arab-Israeli conflict is basically political, the direct causes that brought about the eruption of the intifada at this particular time and in this particular form, were substantially socioeconomic in character. It is on these elements that the essay focuses. (DÜI-Hns)

"Numerous studies address the flow of information between nations and states — especially in the era of globalization — and its contribution to the development of relations across physical borders. By contrast, little attention has been paid to the circumstances under which parties in conflict initiate and build barriers to free flow of information. The conflict in the Middle East may serve as a test bed of controlled disruption of information flow, as covered in Reporting the Middle East: Challenges and Chances. Two parallel types of confrontations appear to take place in the Middle East: the actual physical conflict, and the "war of words," conducted via the media, with each side firing its own verbal missiles. Reporting the Middle East: Challenges and Chances aims to show that the media arena is a key element in understanding the Middle East conflict. Media coverage of Middle Eastern affairs remains critical, if only because of its power in determining sources of information, setting decision makers' agendas, and influencing management of the physical confrontation."--Publisher's website.

(...) Siniora, Hanna: The Siniora-Amirav model. - S. 30-31.(...)

Der Themenschwerpunkt "Refugees" mit Aufsätzen israelischer und palästinensischer Autoren umfaßt neben Beiträgen zur Geschichte des palästinensischen Flüchtlingsproblems vor allem Auseinandersetzungen mit den Positionen und Lösungsansätzen, die in den Gesprächs- und Verhandlungsrunden des Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) vertreten werden. Ein zentraler Diskussionspunkt ist die Definition des Flüchtlingsbegriffs und - damit zusammenhängend - die von Israel durchgesetzte Aufsplittung der Verhandlungen. Während über die Zukunft der Palästinenser, die infolge des Junikriegs 1967 aus den besetzten Gebieten nach Jordanien geflohen sind (Displaced Persons) im bilateralen MEPP-Zweig zwischen Israel, der PLO, Jordanien und Ägypten verhandelt wird, soll über die Palästinaflüchtlinge von 1948 erst in den Verhandlungen über den endgültigen Status entschieden werden. Ein Beitrag befaßt sich mit der Rolle der im multilateralen MEPP-Zweig gegründeten "Refugee Working Group", deren Aufgabe die Verbesserung der gegenwärtigen Lebensbedingungen der palästinensischen Flüchtlinge ist. (DÜI-Hns)