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title	:	The Israelis and Palestinians : Small Steps to Peace Headliners
author	:	Gottfried, Ted.
publisher	:	Millbrook Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0761318593
print isbn13	:	9780761318590
ebook isbn13	:	9780585350929
language	:	English
subject	Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace--Juvenile literature, Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace.
publication date	:	2000
lcc	:	DS119.76.G68 2000eb
ddc	:	956.95/3044
subject	:	Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace--Juvenile literature, Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace.

Page 1 The Israelis and Palestinians Small Steps to Peace Ted Gottfried

Page 2 Published by The Millbrook Press, Inc. 2 Old New Milford Road Brookfield, Connecticut 06804 www.millbrookpress.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gottfried, Ted. The Israelis and Palestinians : small steps to peace / Ted Gottfried. p. cm. (Headliners) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. Summary: Examines the latest developments in the peace process between Israel and the displaced Palestinians led by Yasir Arafat. ISBN 0-7613-1859-3 (lib. bdg.) 1. Arab-Israeli conflict1993PeaceJuvenile literature. [1. Arab-Israeli conflict1993Peace.] I. Title. II. Series. DS119.76.G68 2000 956.95'3044dc21 00-022821 Copyright 2000 by Ted Gottfried Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 Cover photographs courtesy of Reuters/Jamal Saidi/Archive and Chip Hires/Liaison Agency Photographs courtesy of Liaison Agency: pp. 4 (Bryan McBurney), 10 (right, Chip Hires), 14 (Will Yurman), 16 (right, Noel Quidu), 27 (Francolon/Haik), 40 (Catherine Leroy), 47, 52 (Will Yurman); Reuters/Archive Photos: pp. 7 (Jim Hollander), 10 (left, HO), 45 (Jim Hollander); Hulton Getty/Liaison Agency: pp. 16 (left), 21, 25; Archive Photos: pp. 18, 30 (Agence France Presse), 33, 35 (Popperfoto), 38; The Illustrated London News Picture Library: p. 23; AP/Wide World Photos: pp. 49, 54

Page 3 Contents Chapter One/A New Day Dawns 4 Chapter Two/A History of Two Peoples 18 Chapter Three/Making War and Making Peace 30 Chapter Four/The Road to Oslo 40 Chapter Five/Ongoing Issues for Israelis and Palestinians 54 Chronology 59 For Further Reading 61 Index 62

Page 4 Young people supporting Ehud Barak's One Israel party wave flags at a rally four days before the May 1999 election in which Barak was chosen to be the new prime minister of Israel.

Page 5 Chapter 1 A New Day Dawns The little boy wore faded blue jeans with holes in the knees as he ambled past the outdoor caf in Jerusalem on a warm May day in 1999. The tourist sipping iced mint tea couldn't tell if the boy was an Israeli Jew or a Palestinian Arab. "Shalom," the tourist greeted the boy. The word meant "peace." The boy smiled. "Barak," he replied, speaking the name of Israel's newly elected prime minister. The smile faded. "Maybe," he added. Hope and skepticismthis was the mixture of moods among all Israelis and Palestinians in the aftermath of the Israeli election replacing the Likud government of Benjamin Netanyahu with the One Israel party of Ehud Barak. Netanyahu had been opposed to the "land-for-peace" agreements reached with Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and had kept them from being carried out during the three years he had been prime minister. By contrast,

Page 6 saying that the "Palestinian state is inevitable," Barak pledged to implement the agreements speedily. This would not be simple. The conflict between Jews and Palestinians had its roots in centuries-old disputes. These had come to a head in 1948 when the Jews had taken over Palestine and declared that it was now the nation of Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had fled to neighboring Arab countries to live in refugee camps set up on the borders with Israel. Over the decades that followedmarked by violence and warthe Palestinians had demanded reparations and the reestablishment of the Palestinian nation. Recently there had been meetings held and agreements reached between the Palestinians and Israelis, but very little had actually changed. Barak had promised action, but he had problems. Thirty-five parties had participated in the election, and fifteen had elected members to the Knesset (the Israeli parliament). The 120 seats had been won not only by Barak and Likud supporters but also by many single-issue parties. The ultra-Orthodox Shas party, dedicated to imposing Jewish religious law on the nation, came in third in the election, winning seventeen seats. The aims of the Shas were opposed by secular (nonreligious) Israelis, including most Barak backers, as well as the left-wing Meretz party (winner of nine seats), which favored a Palestinian state. The two Russian Israeli partiesYisrael Ba-aliya and Yisrael Beitinu, with eleven Knesset seatsrepresented 740,000 recent immigrants. Sephardic (Jews originating in the Arab world) supporters of Shas claimed that the government showed favoritism to the generally better educated and well-off Russians. The Russian parties opposed "land for peace," government restrictions on business, and religious dictates by the Orthodox.

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