POLS 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter Herbert C. Kelman: Yasser Arafat, Oslo I Accord, Palestinian National Authority
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Some determinants of the oslo breakthrough herbert c. kelman: despite some of the asymmetries, ambiguities, and contradictions of the oslo agreement, it represents a. Palestinians, observing the military failures of the arab states, concluded that they could not rely on them to liberate palestine and decided to take over their own struggle. Israel now had control over land that it could trade for peace with the palestinians and the arab states the. In sum, the palestinianization of the conflict in the different senses created, among significant elements on all sides, strong interests in finding a suitable compromise that would allow them to put an end to the arab- In pan-arab terms, an acceptable solution required the dismantlement of israel in palestinian localist terms, an acceptable solution required regaining the particular homes that the palestinian refugees had lost. East became less significant: both the plo and israel were highly susceptible to pressures from the united states.