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Post by Orange Team Admin on Jan 31, 2014 18:01:26 GMT
What has been done to help resolve this conflict? (Eg. Role of foreign countries). Has it been useful or has it done more harm than good?
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Post by wenqing on Feb 2, 2014 10:22:11 GMT
I have another question: Are we moving closer to, or further away from a resolvement of the conflict?
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Post by rutianrutian on Feb 26, 2014 16:25:49 GMT
What has been done to help resolve this conflict? (Eg. Role of foreign countries). Has it been useful or has it done more harm than good? The conflict is hands down one of the most extensively dealt with disputes in the contemporary world!! Personal attempts made by United States presidents (i.e. Clinton, Bush, Obama), tireless initiatives by international organizations like the United Nations as well as the formation of high-level emissaries such as The Arab League and Quartet on the Middle East to facilitate negotiations, all provide overwhelming evidence of well-meaning governments around the world devoting immense attention and resources to the conflict in hopes of achieving a peaceful resolution.. Unfortunately for everyone, it seems that the countless efforts of peacemakers have been for naught since the peace process has gone nowhere despite the passage of time. I have another question: Are we moving closer to, or further away from a resolvement of the conflict? I'm not sure if I'm making sense... but here goes.. I would say that we're neither moving closer to nor further away from putting an end to this terrible mess. The conflict's cyclical nature has meant that in spite of whatever advances made during a particular stage, it is almost a certainty that a regression will come along and just like that we periodically find ourselves going back to square one  Eruptions of armed struggle are often punctuated with a period of negotiations, which can be extremely deceiving.. just when you think that peace is finallllllyyyy approaching this time round, the situation transforms into yet another period of preparation for further confrontation, with both sides refusing to back down and surrender to peace. |
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Post by wenqing on Mar 29, 2014 8:10:24 GMT
Okay to answer the question:
There have been a series of peace talks. The most recent ones were in 2010, and there's also an ongoing discussion right now that began last year and is expected to end by mid 2014. To be honest, I'm quite skeptical if the current peace talks will result in any breakthroughs.
According to what I found on the net, the 2010 direct talks took place between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. It was mediated by Obama and they discussed a number of issues, such as the Israeli's 10 month freeze on building settlements on the West Bank, and the two state solution. The talks fell through though, in late September 2010 when an Israeli partial moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank expired and the Israeli PM refused to extend the freeze unless the Palestinian Authority recognised Israel as a Jewish State, while the Palestinian side refused to continue negotiating unless Israel extended the moratorium.
The current peace talks are mediated by John Kerry, the U.S secretary of state. It's completion date is mid 2014 (just 3 months away lol) and the issues that are being debated include water, U.S's position as a mediator (They want the U.S to be more proactive..... what), the 104 Palestinians taken prisoner by Israeli and the presence of Israel military in Palestine.
Oh and I found out that Norway was actually involved in peace talks in the earlier days as well! I always thought they were a neutral country hahaha
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Eruptions of armed struggle are often punctuated with a period of negotiations, which can be extremely deceiving.. just when you think that peace is finallllllyyyy approaching this time round, the situation transforms into yet another period of preparation for further confrontation, with both sides refusing to back down and surrender to peace.