{"id":16548,"date":"2011-05-18T20:27:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/?p=16548"},"modified":"2016-01-31T20:40:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T17:40:03","slug":"september-101-what-makes-this-september-so-important-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/september-101-what-makes-this-september-so-important-in-the-middle-east","title":{"rendered":"September 101: What Makes this September so Important in the Middle East?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is Everyone Talking About September 2011 as a Key Moment in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 September<\/strong>\u00a0is when the UN General Assembly holds its annual meeting.
\n\u2022 September<\/strong>\u00a0coincides with the end of the two-year period of infrastructure-and-institution-building proclaimed by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who heads the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, in preparation for the declaration of a Palestinian state.
\n\u2022 September<\/strong> marks the anniversary of the aspiration voiced by President Obama at the General Assembly last September to secure a Middle East deal \u201cwithin a year\u201d that would lead to a new member, Palestine, being welcomed into the world organization.<\/p>\n

By September, patience on the Palestinian side will almost completely run out after many fruitless years of aimless negotiations and feeble international mediation<\/p>\n

The Palestinians are preparing to end bi-lateral negotiations with Israel and seek to \u2018internationalize\u2019 the issue.<\/p>\n

What could be expected in September:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Palestinians<\/strong> could call on all countries, and the United Nations as a body, to recognize a Palestinian state on the pre-June 1967 boundaries. More than 100 countries \u2013 many of them not at all hostile to Israel – have already pledged their support for such a move. (If successful, this would leave Israel, with its military bases in the West Bank, in daily violation of the sovereign territory of an independent UN member-state. Israel\u2019s legal position would become a nightmare)
\n\u2022 Palestinians<\/strong> could call for an international protectorate or trusteeship to take control of the occupied territories for a transitional period pending independence. (This would enable the Israelis to hand over occupied territory).
\n\u2022 Palestinians<\/strong> could start a vigorous campaign to isolate and boycott Israel internationally, and use international law to prosecute the Israeli state and its agents.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s Options in Response:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Do Nothing: Result<\/strong> =\u00a0leading to the ire of international governments, increasingly isolating Israel – the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement will extend its appeal globally.
\n\u2022 Unilateral annexations\u00a0of some parts of the West Bank (settlements) and unilateral withdrawals from other parts. Result<\/strong> =\u00a0condemnation by world\/Palestinians get international sympathy and support\/Palestinians not get own independent state and recipe for perpetual conflict, with no winners.
\n\u2022 Join a process\u00a0to determine the shape of a final resolution, progress towards a resolution of the conflict. Result<\/strong> =\u00a0An increase in Israel’s international standing, the potential for economic growth, the end of a cycle of violence, \u00a0a strong and lasting peace agreement with the Palestinians – which could also cause a chain reaction of peace agreements between Israel and other nations in the Arab world.<\/p>\n

For a more in-depth look at the issues, see the material below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Two-State Solution<\/a><\/p>\n

Bonfire of the experts: The Arab uprisings and the Israeli-Palestinian question<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is Everyone Talking About September 2011 as a Key Moment in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? \u2022 September\u00a0is when the UN General Assembly holds its annual meeting. \u2022 September\u00a0coincides with the end of the two-year period of infrastructure-and-institution-building proclaimed by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who heads the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, in preparation for… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-16548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns","tag-palestinian-state"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16554,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548\/revisions\/16554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}