problems of peace making 1993-9

• 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