Oslo Accords & Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Decision Tree on Settlements & Incitement - P, Study notes of Mathematics

Download Oslo Accords & Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Decision Tree on Settlements & Incitement - P and more Study notes Mathematics in PDF only on Docsity! The Israeli – Palestinian Conflict Post Oslo Accords Meira Levinson Math 170 3/ 19/ 03 Historical Background • After many years of conflict and war between Israelis and Arabs, hope for peace finally seemed possible with the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. • The Oslo Accords, or Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles, as it was otherwise known, called for a five year trial period of peace between the two sides, at the end of which 5 key issues would be decided upon: 1. the extent of the territories that Israel would return 2. the possibility of a Palestinian state 3. the future of the settlements 4. water rights 5. the question of the Palestinian refugees, and Jerusalem • There are different opinions as to whether or not Oslo called for Israel to halt the building of settlements. It did call for Israeli withdrawal of military presence from Palestinian territories, and for Israel and the US to supply the PA with money and weapons so that the PA could establish a police force within their territories. It also called for the PA to stop current incitement of the populace against Israel and for it to arrest certain known terrorists. For the purposes of this presentation, we will be focusing only on the question of the settlements and the cessation of Palestinian incitement against Israel. • If the Palestinians stop incitement, Israel will respond with further negotiations, and the two sides will move on to the final stages of Oslo • If the Palestinians either continue incitement or choose violence, Israel can respond either by choosing to ignore it & moving on to further negotiations anyway, or by doing something such as rebuilding – in essence, declaring the negotiations of the Oslo accords as failed • If the Palestinians choose violence, Israel will choose to respond with force. • The tree ends when one side reaches further negotiations, failed negotiations, or use of force (in some instances in the tree you will see certain branches that evolve into an infinitely repeating pattern, which for simplicity’s sake I have labeled as failed negotiations) Decision Tree Key • D = dismantle settlements • Sb = stop building settlements • Cb = continue building • Si = stop incitement • Ci = continue incitement • V = violence by Palestinians • N = further negotiations • Fn = failed negotiations • F = use of force by Israelis Oslo Accords d sb cb si ci v si ci v si ci v n n fn f n n d cb f n n d cb f si ci v n n fn f si ci v n n d fn si ci n n fn v f f The rest of the branches after cb-ci-d and cb-ci-cb are the same as sb-ci-d and sb-ci-cb (there wasn’t room to draw them out)