problems of peace making 1993-9

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    • what were the most difficult problems to be settled from 1993-8?
      The future of Jerusalem.
      Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
      an independent palestinian state.
      the palestinian refugees right to return.
    • how many Israelis in settlements were encircling east jersualem in the late 1990s?
      150,000
    • what did the Israeli soldiers think about what should happen to the Jewish settlements?
      they should continue to guard those settlements and protect Jewish inhabitants
    • what was the issue with the palestinian state?
      not all palestinians accepted a limited state to Gaza and West Bank, they were against Israeli troops remaining on the West Bank
    • why did the Israelis not want the palestinian refugees to return?

      feel that Israel would be swamped and that they would then form the majority
    • why did the peace process slow down?
      Israeli troops were slow to leave.
      More Jewish settlements built in occupied territories-seizure of Palestinian land.
      More roads built across Palestinian land to reach settlements-only for Jewish use.
    • who did many of the Palestinians switch their support from and to?
      from the PLO, to HAMAS.
    • what was HAMAS?

      Palestinian militant group, Islamic Resistance Movement.
    • what did HAMAS oppose?
      'peace process', as they believed there was no Israeli recognition of Palestine's right to an independent state let alone the promise of one
    • what was the declared aim of HAMAS?

      to destroy the state of Israel
    • what did HAMAS campaign of?
      suicide bombings in israel and occupied territories
    • how did the Israeli government respond to HAMAS' suicide bombings?
      Israeli troops moved back in Gaza and West Bank, Israelis sealed the borders between Israel and occupied territories
    • when was Rabin assassinated?
      1995
    • why did agreements between the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority not work out?
      extremists on both sides dominated the headlines
    • what did the death of Rabin and increases suicide attacks lead to?

      the election of Netanyahu in 1996
    • what did Netanyahu's government oppose?
      Oslo peace process and blocked any further negotiations with Arafat and the Palestinian Authority.
    • what did Netanyahu want to do with Jewish settlements?

      planned to complete chain of them around east Jerusalem, effectively cutting off the Arab inhabitants
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