2000 was a mountainous year for the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It heralded the start of the current uprising of armed Palestinians targeting mostly unarmed Israeli citizens. It was also a year of seemingly amazing progress as then Israeli PM Ehud Barak took Israel closer than she had ever been to reaching an end of conflict agreement.
There have been numerous debates regarding what Israel really offered in 2000; first at Camp David and then by agreeing to the even more generous Clinton Parameters. Both deals were outrightly rejected by Arafat, without him even making a counter offer.
Palestinians repeatedly claim that the Israeli offer amounted to nothing less than a series of non-contiguous Bantustans preventing any viable Palestinian state.
Dennis Ross was the lead US envoy to the Middle East from 1988-2000. Few people can claim to have been as committed to the cause of peace in the Middle East as much as Dennis Ross has been. In his recent book "The Missing Peace" Ross includes maps depicting the offers that were on the table for the Palestinians.
Palestinian Characterisation of the Final Proposal at Camp David.
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This map reflects a map proposed by the Israelis early at Camp David, but it innacurately depicts Israeli security zones carving the WB into three cantons, and includes Israeli settlements in the proposed Palestinian state. Official Palestinians now cite this map as the final offer they turned down at Camp David. (The initial Israeli proposal called for a Palestinian state in 87% of the WB [and 100% of Gaza]. This map shows that state comprising only 83% of that territory.)
Map Reflecting Actual Proposal at Camp David
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While no map was presented during the final rounds at Camp David, this map illustrates the parameters of what President Clinton proposed and Arafat rejected: Palestinian control over 91% of the West Bank in contiguous territory [and 100% of Gaza] and an Israeli security presence along 15% of the border with Jordan. This map actually understates the final Camp David proposal because it does not depict the additional territorial swap of 1% that was offered from Israel territory.
Finally, this map reflects the Clinton Ideas of December 2000. These ideas were accepted by Israel but were rejected by the Palestinians.
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No formal map was presented to the Israelis and Palestinians in December 2000 by President Clinton, but this map illustrates the Clinton ideas--a Palestinian state in 95% of the West Bank and 100% of Gaza (bringing total territory relinquished by Israel to 97%). This map actually understates the Clinton ideas by not showing and additional 1 to 3% of territorial swaps to the Palestinian state from areas within Israel.
Think about it...the monstrous images captured over the past four years could rather have been sources of wonderment had Arafat just said "Yes".
Stay tuned to It's Almost Supernatural for more details of what was proposed by in the Clinton ideas in term of security, territory, the refugees, and Jerusalem.
UPDATE
You can read my first entry concerning the Dennis Ross book here.
Top post mate, ive been searching for these maps for some time now
Posted by: Anti-UN | February 23, 2005 at 11:59
Thanks a million for this. I got to you through Discarded Lies blog. I've never known where to find these maps. They're now in my favourites.
Posted by: annie | February 26, 2005 at 18:38
Pleasure...is discarded lies the blog that started as LGF watch watch?
Please post a link
Posted by: Steve | February 26, 2005 at 19:44
I think so. It's a spin off of LGF anyway, with many (or mostly) LGFers posting and commenting on it.
Posted by: annie | February 26, 2005 at 22:08
Oops, sorry, forgot to post a link.
http://www.discardedlies.com/ is the link for the site.
Your article was posted here:
http://www.discardedlies.com/entries/2005/02/israel_sliced_diced_and_fed_to_the_terrorists.php#comments
scroll down to comment #2
Posted by: | February 27, 2005 at 01:44
Great post, Steve. I'll be linking back to you for this one.
Posted by: patrickafir | February 27, 2005 at 11:49
http://www.gush-shalom.org/media/barak_eng.swf
Posted by: jinx | March 01, 2005 at 16:25
Commentary on the negotiations has always been a projective text that reflected the views of the commentators or their political needs more than reality. No official maps were ever published. A version of the final map that Barak presented at Taba, not Camp David is shown here:
Maps of the negotiations.
This is a map by "the other side" from you point of view. It was drawn by Foundation for Middle East Peace and presented by Gush Shalom as well. Nonetheless it is not a map of "Bantustans" and could have been the basis for a deal. It is a lot more than Barak ever admitted to offering.
The problem is, that it is very unlikely that Barak could have gotten support for that map in a referendum in Israel.
From the Palestinian point of view, it seems to me that all the maps are just excuses. The negotiations failed because of the right of return issue, not because of maps. Even if Barak had proposed the borders of 1949, the Palestinians would still have insisted on literal Right of Return for refugees. They had too much political pressure on them to do otherwise. But they also created that pressure by encouraging groups like BADIL. See Why Oslo Failed, from which I quote:
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