Summary
An agreement in principle for a permanent Israeli-Palestinian solution secretly negotiated in Stockholm by Yossi Beilin and the Palestinian representative Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Masen), which Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine presents as the formulated “permanent solution” that Shimon Peres declined to endorse after Rabin’s assassination (Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine, PDF p.193-195 / printed p.184-186).
Details
- In a nutshell, the paper provided for a demilitarized Palestinian state comprising ninety-four percent of the West Bank, wherein the remaining six percent (seventy-five percent of which were Jewish settlements) were to be compensated for by a region in southern Gaza; the Muslim holy sites in East Jerusalem would get an exterritorial status, and the Palestinian capital would have been allowed outside the city limits of Jerusalem as determined by Israel (PDF p.193).
- According to Avi Shlaim, as presented in the work, the paper — called the “coup of the century” by the Palestinian negotiating partner Hussein Agha — was rejected because Peres could not be persuaded to endorse the plan, for three main reasons: he wanted “future relations between Palestine and Jordan spelled out”, he regarded the ideas on Jerusalem as inadequate, and he wanted to retain the Jordan Valley as Israel’s strategic border (Shlaim 2000: 555–556, PDF p.193-194).
- The document was based on a division solution, had been negotiated shortly before Rabin’s assassination, and would have been welcomed by the Palestinian leadership (PDF p.195).
Related pages
Yossi Beilin, Mahmoud Abbas, Shimon Peres, Oslo Accords, Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine