Making Peace With The Plo: The Rabin Government's Road To The Oslo Accord

by David Makovsky

Overview

This book explores the personal, domestic, regional, and international factors that led Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other top aides to negotiate the peace accords. It describes in fascinating detail the intricacies of the Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) bargaining.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429978722
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/19/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

David Makovsky

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Prologue -- The Unforeseen Peace Process -- Drafting the Declaration of Principles -- Upgrading the Oslo Talks -- Brinkmanship -- The Israeli Political Environment -- International and Regional Changes -- Rabin’s Personal Road to Oslo -- The Lessons of Oslo -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Security Council Resolution 242 -- The Camp David Accords -- The Reagan Peage Initiative -- Reagan’s Talking Points 2 -- The London Agreement 3 -- The Shultz Initiative 4 -- Israeli Government Peace Initiative 5 -- U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference -- Israeli Labor Party Platform -- U.S. Proposal for Israeli-Palestinian Statement 6 -- Rabin’s Letter to Arafat Recognizing the Plo -- Arafat’s Letter to Rabin Recognizing Israel’s Right to Exist in Peace -- Arafat’s Letter to Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst on the Intifada -- The Israel-Plo Declaration of Principles -- Excerpts from Speeches at the Secret Oslo Signing Ceremony -- Rabin’s Speech at the Dop Signing Ceremony -- Arafat’s Speech at the Dop Signing Ceremony -- Clinton’s Speech at Dop Signing Ceremony -- Peres’ Letter to Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst on the Status of Jerusalem -- Senior Israeli Officials who Report Directly to Rabin -- Chronology -- About the Book and Author

What People are Saying About This

Samuel W. Lewis

An extraordinary achievement...[it] is simply a tour de force.

Abba Eban

Distinguished by meticulous research, stylish prose, and many new insights. It is by far the easiest avenue now available for understanding the tortuous complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship.

Editorial Reviews

With meticulous research and interviews with nearly all of the key Israeli players, the author provides a clear, detailed and very readable account of how, and equally important, why the Oslo agreement came about. It unravels the politics of why Prime Minister Rabin shifted policy in the course of 1993 and decided to deal with the PLO. An important adition to the literature on the topic.

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