تأثير الدبلوماسية الأمريكية على التطبيق الأسرائيلي للتسوية مع الفلسطينيين 1993-2000
Date
2008-06-16
Authors
هنادي محمد لطفي ابو طاقية
Hanadi Mohammad Lotfi Abu Takia
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AL-Quds University
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جامعة القدس
Abstract
The thesis discusses the role of the United States as a fair and honest broker
for the Middle East peace process. It analyzes American influence on Israeli
policies regarding the settlement with the Palestinians and the implementation
of the commitments acknowledged by the Oslo Accords signed during the
period 1993-2000 - the term of office of Bill Clinton as president for two
consecutive tenures.
The study highlights the factors which played the main role in granting or
restricting the capabilities of U.S. teams on influencing Israeli policies and
practices towards the peace process. It traces the American –Israeli relations
as they developed between both countries reaching a strategic coalition and
special relationship distinguished by self–interest mutuality. Such relationship
gave each of the two states the potentiality of influencing and be influenced
by the other. Israel had the potentiality of influencing the American role as a
sponsor and mediator of the peace process. The Zionist lobby with its ability
to practice pressure on the Clinton administration presented Israel with the
essential political , economic and military support it needed to improve its
leverage.
The final conclusions of the research. U. S. commitment was not
accompanied with credibility and neutrality of the mediators. The American
Administration failed to be the honest broker between the two negotiating
teams aligning itself with the Israeli position. Its attitudes reflected a feature
of the American diplomacy throughout the last decades, reflecting the mutual
interests of both countries whose relationships were characterized with
mutuality and self – interest .
The American alignment to Israel during the various stages of the peace
process strengthened the Israeli negotiating position and at the same time
weakening the Palestinian negotiating position, and thus creating more
asymmetry between both sides. The result was serious damages caused to the
Palestinian rights due to the adoption of the bilateral negotiation track with
American sponsorship, and moving away from the umbrella of the
international legality with its institutions and organizations which supported
the Palestinian cause and rights as expressed by many
U. N. resolutions
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الدراسات الاقليمية , Regional Studies