Summary
The 1987 agreement negotiated in secret London talks between Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan’s King Hussein, providing for a peace process under international auspices based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, which was blocked by the Likud in the grand coalition and never ratified, as presented by Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine (Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine, PDF p.158, 177-178 / printed p.149, 168-169).
Details
- The document provided that the UN secretary general was to appeal to the five permanent members of the Security Council and the parties involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict to negotiate a settlement “with the object of bringing a comprehensive peace to the area, security to its states, and to respond to the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people” (PDF p.177).
- Its third part agreed that no solution and no veto may be imposed from outside the negotiation network, that negotiations were to be lead [as printed] in bilateral groups, that the Palestinian question was to be addressed in talks between a Jordanian-Palestinian and an Israeli delegation, that Palestinian representatives could participate only as part of the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, and that participation required acceptance of Resolutions 242 and 338 and rejection of violence and terrorism (PDF p.178).
- The paper was based on the Jordanian Option: the Palestinian Option — creation of a Palestinian state and recognition of the PLO as a dialogue partner — was categorically excluded, the UN was not allowed to influence the content of negotiations or results, and the document made barely any statements about the core points of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (PDF p.178).
- Peres was firmly convinced his initiative would have had realistic chances of success had it been implemented (PDF p.178).
Related pages
Shimon Peres, Oslo Accords, Palestine Liberation Organization, Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine