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Middle East & North Africa / Comment

Annapolis: the good, the bad and the ugly

17/12/2007 By Henry Siegman

The Annapolis understandings are taking centre stage in negotiations over "all of the core issues, without exception," as stated by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and President George W. Bush. Before Annapolis, Israel refused to consider negotiations for a final status accord before Palestinians implement their obligation under the road map to dismantle "the infrastructures of terror" and disarm Palestinian militants.

The demand constituted the mother of all oxymorons, since no Palestinian leader could end  violent resistance to the occupation in the face of Israel's refusal to reveal how much Palestinian territory it intended to retain until after negotiations begin. Having already lost to Israel half the territory recognised by the UN in its partition resolution of 1947 as the legitimate patrimony of the Arab residents of Palestine, Palestinians are not about to renounce the right to fight, if necessary, to retain the 22 percent of Palestine that was left them.

In this Comment article Henry Siegman asks whether this latest round of negotiations has the potential to bring a long-awaited peace to the troubled region. He also examines the internal divisions within both Palestinian and Israeli society, and analyses how these factors will affect any attempt to put an end to the hostilities.


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Bio author: Henry Siegman

Henry Siegman is president of the U.S./Middle East Project, a program of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) for the past 14 years and, as of September 2006, an independent policy institute. He is also a research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Mr. Siegman's areas of specialization include Arab-Israel relations, the Middle East peace process, U.S. Middle East policy, and interreligious relations.