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page 60149Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Peace 18-24 (2005). In2000, then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, offered thePalestinians statehood in all of the Gaza Strip, and morethan 95 percent of the West Bank and the adjoining land.Arafat refused the offer and therefore the negotiationsfailed. What is important to note is that countries do notgenerally enshrine offers made during negotiations thathave failed. They do not subsequently maintain an offer ifthe negotiations of which the offer was part have failed. Theoffer is not the starting point for future negotiations. So too,the Israeli offer at Camp David should not be enshrined.It was colloquially ‘all or nothing.’ Had the Palestiniansaccepted the offer they would have had a state. The fact thatthey rejected it means that they do not have a state, and thatfuture negotiations will not begin on the premise of the CampDavid negotiations. Thus, the Palestinians could at a laterdate be offered less than they were at Camp David in 2000.This is a view Alan Dershowitz supports, as he says that tooffer the same or more would be tantamount to rewardingterrorism.150Deborah Sontag, And Yet So Far: A Special Report; Quest forMiddle East Peace: How and Why it Failed, NY Times, July 26,2001. The creation of Bantustans was an aspect of the SouthAfrican Apartheid State, which consigned its black populationto ten separate homelands or Bantustans. This policywas based on sheer racism. While ostensibly independententities, the Apartheid regime tightly controlled all thehomelands and their external affairs.151Dennis B. Ross, Yasser Arafat; Think Again, Foreign Policy,July 1, 2002.152Available at: http://ue.eu.int/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/declarations/86284.pdf. Quartet Statement,New York, Sept. 20, 2005. (las visited Apr. 2, 2007)153Address by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Fourth Herzliya2005.165World Bank Technical Team, Short Term Improvementsfor Trade Facilitation and Passages: Improvements to theKarni Border Crossing, Gaza-West Bank Link, and InternalClosures, July 8, 2005.166World Bank Technical Team, Short Term Improvementsfor Trade Facilitation and Passages: Improvements to theKarni Border Crossing, Gaza-West Bank Link, and InternalClosures, July 8, 2005.167World Bank Technical Team, Linking Gaza and the West Bank,Sept. 30, 2005.168World Bank Technical Team, Linking Gaza and the West Bank,Sept. 30, 2005.169World Bank Technical Team, Linking Gaza and the West Bank,Sept. 30, 2005.170Available at: http://www. rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/summer2005/peace.html. (last visited: Apr. 2, 2007)171Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Peace 43-44 (2005)172Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Peace 43-44 (2005)173World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.174World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.175World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.176World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.177World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.178World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.179World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.180World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,Conference, Dec 18. 2003.154Available at: http://ue.eu.int/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/declarations/86284.pdf. Quartet Statement,New York, Sept. 20, 2005. (last visited: Apr. 2, 2007)155Saul Hudson, Rice pushes for Gaza-West Bank ‘Connectivity,”The Washington Times, July. 24, 2005.156Condoleezza Rice, March 1, 2005.157Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Peace 39 (2005).158Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnel. (lastvisited: Apr. 2, 2007)159World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.160World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.161World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.162World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.163World Bank Technical Team, Linking Gaza and the West Bank,Sept. 30, 2005.164World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.181World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.182Palestine Royal Commission Report (Peel Report) (1937), at385.183World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.184World Bank Technical Team, Door to Door Movement, July 5,2005.185Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law 107 (4thed. 1990).186Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law 107 (4thed. 1990).187Malcolm N. Shaw, International Law 333 (4th ed.).188Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law 107 (4thed. 1990).189Malcolm N. Shaw, International Law 334 (4th ed.).190Malcolm N. Shaw, International Law 333-34 (4th ed.).191Malcolm N. Shaw, International Law 366 (4th ed. 1997).192Ulrich Fastenrath, Servitudes, 10 EPIL 389, 391 (1987).193Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Peace 39 (2005).
194Ulrich Fastenrath, Servitudes, 10 EPIL 389, 391 (1987).195See Malcolm N. Shaw, International Law 366 (4th ed. 1997).196Available at: http://www.mfa.gov.il (last visited Feb. 28, 2007).197I.A Shearer, Starke’s International Law 89-90 (11th ed. 1994).198Oslo II, Article XII (emphasis added).199Hamas Charter, as cited in the Jerusalem Post, Upfront, Jan.6, 2006, at 16.200Hamas Charter, as cited in the Jerusalem Post, Upfront, Jan.6, 2006, at 16.201Margot Dudkevitch, Security Officials: Hamas Victory wouldDestroy PA, Jerusalem Post, Jan. 11, 2006, at 2.202Margot Dudkevitch, Security Officials: Hamas Victory wouldDestroy PA, Jerusalem Post, Jan. 11, 2006, at 2.203I.A Shearer, Starke’s International Law 93-94 (11th ed. 1994).204Joseph Gabriel Starke, Starke’s International Law 94 (11th ed.1994).205I.A Shearer, Starke’s International Law 95 (11th ed. 1994).206Mitchell G. Bard, ed. Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2001).207Mitchell G. Bard, ed. Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2001).208Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Israel’s Requirements forDefensible Borders, in Dr. Yuval Steinitz et al, JerusalemCenter for Public Affairs, Defensible Borders for a LastingPeace 17, 19 (2005).209Dr Yuval Steinitz et al, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace 2 (2005).210Dr Yuval Steinitz et al, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace 2 (2005).211Dr Yuval Steinitz et al, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace 2 (2005).212See Dr. Meir Rosenne, Understanding UN Security CouncilResolution 242 of November 22, 1967, on the Middle East inDr Yuval Steinitz et al, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace 41 (2005).213Dr. Meir Rosenne, Understanding UN Security CouncilResolution 242 of November 22, 1967, on the Middle East inDr Yuval Steinitz et al, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace 41, 46 (2005). Twodraft resolutions were presented to the Security Council, onein French and the other, presented by the British, in English.The French text made use of the definite article “the” andcalled for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from “the occupiedterritories.” Thus, the French version of the resolution seemsto require that Israel withdraw from all territory that hadbeen occupied in Israel’s defensive war. The English versionon the other hand intentionally leaves out the definite article,thus tacitly requiring that Israel withdraw from only some ofthe occupied territories. In the case of clashing texts due tolanguage differences, preference is given to the text that wasoriginally submitted to the UN Security Council. In this case,that text is the English text. Thus, the English text prevailson this matter.214Dr. Meir Rosenne, Understanding UN Security CouncilResolution 242 of November 22, 1967, on the Middle East inDr Yuval Steinitz et al, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace 41, 46 (2005).215Dr Yuval Steinitz et al, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace 4 (2005).216Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Israel’s Requirements forDefensible Borders, in Dr. Yuval Steinitz et al, JerusalemCenter for Public Affairs, Defensible Borders for a LastingPeace 17, 37 (2005).217Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Israel’s Requirements forDefensible Borders, in Dr. Yuval Steinitz et al, JerusalemCenter for Public Affairs, Defensible Borders for a LastingPeace 17, 37 (2005).218Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Israel’s Requirements forDefensible Borders, in Dr. Yuval Steinitz et al, JerusalemCenter for Public Affairs, Defensible Borders for a LastingPeace 17, 39 (2005).219Lieutenant General (Ret) Thomas Kelly, director of operationsfrom the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War of 1991.Mitchell G. Bard, ed. Myths and Facts: a Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2001).220Mitchell G. Bard, ed. Myths and Facts: a Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2001).221Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Israel’s Requirements forDefensible Borders, in Dr. Yuval Steinitz et al, JerusalemCenter for Public Affairs, Defensible Borders for a LastingPeace 17, 28-29 (2005).222Dr. Yuval Steinitz et al, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace 2 (2005).223Available at: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2005/iran-051101-rfer/01.htm. On October 26,2005, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, speaking at aforum called ‘The World Without Zionism,’ stated that “Israelshould be wiped off the map.”224Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases2004/04/20040414-3.html (last visited Feb. 28, 2007).225Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050411-2.html (last visited Feb. 28, 2007).226Jerusalem Issue Brief, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Dan Haloutz, 21st Century Threats Facing Israel, Vol. 3, No16, February 3, 2004.227Dr. Yuval Steinitz et al, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace 14 (2005).228Dan Izenberg & Yaakov Katz, ‘Karni Crossing is an Acid Test ofAbu Manen’s Capabilities,’ Jerusalem Post, Jan. 5, 2007, at 3.229Dan Izenberg & Yaakov Katz, ‘Karni crossing is an Acid Test ofAbu Manen’s Capabilities,’ Jerusalem Post, Jan. 5, 2007, at 3.230Ben-David, Alon, “PIJ attempted helo shootdown, sayIsraelis.” Jane’s Defense Weekly, Feb. 15, 2006.231Available at: www.idf.il/dover/site/mainpage.asp?sl=EN&id=22&docid=37572.EN (last visited Feb. 28, 2007).232Available at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.jsource/Peace/paship.html. The Karine A was a four-thousand tonfreighter destined for the Gaza Strip. It was discovered inJanuary 2002, carrying over 50 tons of weapons, includinglong-range Katyusha rockets, LAW anti-tank missiles,page 61
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