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Index: Sources, I

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Index: Sources, I

  • ‘Mowing the Grass’: Israel’s Strategy for Protracted Intractable Conflict — 2014. Efraim Inbar and Eitan Shamir, ‘Mowing the Grass’: Israel’s Strategy for Protracted Intractable Conflict (Journal of Strategic Studies 37:1, 65-90): the strategy of attrition against non-state groups — destroying enemy capabilities for temporary deterrence and periods of quiet, with no ambition to solve the conflict — demonstrated through Defensive Shield (2002), the Second Lebanon War (2006), Cast Lead (2008-09) and Pillar of Defense (2012). Read in full: PDF p.1-28 of 28.
  • The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948 — 1948-06-30. The Intelligence Service (Arab Section) report, in the Akevot Institute’s English translation, counting 391,000 Arabs displaced by June 1, 1948 and attributing some 70% of residents’ leaving to Jewish military action, with a village-by-village annex of dates, causes and trajectories.
  • ‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954) — Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif and Karène Sanchez Summerer (eds.), ‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954) (Brill, 2022): the memoirs of Orthodox priest and nationalist Niqula Khoury, with a Foreword by Cyrus Schayegh, an editors’ Introduction, and Papastathis on Khoury and the Arab Orthodox Movement. Read in full, PDF p.1-213 of 213.
  • The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement — 1988-08-18. Islamic Resistance Movement, The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement: Islam as programme, Palestine as Islamic Waqf, no solution except through Jihad, and kinship without ideological exchange with the secular PLO.
  • Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel — 1948-05-14. People’s Council, Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (Avalon Project): historical recital from Eretz-Israel to the 29 November 1947 resolution, declaration of a Jewish State named Israel effective on the Mandate’s termination, provisional organs to 1 October 1948, equality and Holy Places undertakings, economic union and four appeals; 37 signatories as printed.
  • Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area (4 May 1994) — 1994-05-04. Government of the State of Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization, Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area (Cairo Agreement): withdrawal within three weeks and redeployment to the Settlements and Military Installation Area, a 24-member Palestinian Authority with jurisdiction excluding foreign relations, external security and Settlements and Israelis, a Palestinian Police, the Paris Protocol as Annex IV, about 5,000 prisoners to be released or transferred within five weeks, a 400-person Temporary International Presence, and the five-year interim period commencing on signing; Annexes I-IV and maps not reproduced in the file.
  • Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (28 September 1995) — 1995-09-28. Government of the State of Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization, Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: the Oslo II agreement establishing the 82-member Council and Ra’ees, Areas A, B and C, phased redeployment within 18 months, a 30,000-capped Palestinian Police, Annex I security arrangements, Annex II elections, and the Annex III sphere-by-sphere civil transfer including the Article 40 water regime and the Joint Water Committee. Read PDF p.1-167 of 188 (parts 1-3 of 4).
  • Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron (15 January 1997) — 1997-01-15. Government of the State of Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization, Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron: H-1/H-2 security division, a 400-person Palestinian Police force in H-1, joint units and a Joint Coordination Center, Shuhada Road restoration within four months, 12 civil spheres transferred, and a Temporary International Presence in Hebron. Read in full, lines 1-293 of 293.
  • The Wye River Memorandum (23 October 1998) — 1998-10-23. Government of the State of Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization, The Wye River Memorandum: 13% from Area C and 14.2% from Area B to Area A over twelve weeks, paired with a U.S.-shared Palestinian security work plan, weapons collection, anti-incitement decree and Charter reaffirmation, and permanent status agreement by May 4, 1999. Read in full, lines 1-274 of 274.
  • The Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum on Implementation Timeline of Outstanding Commitments of Agreements Signed and the Resumption of Permanent Status Negotiations (4 September 1999) — 1999-09-04. Government of the State of Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization, The Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum: dated redeployments, 200 and 150 prisoner releases, Southern safe passage and Gaza port construction from October 1, 1999, and Framework and comprehensive permanent-status agreements in five months and one year. Read in full, lines 1-175 of 175.
  • Treaty of Peace between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (26 October 1994) — 1994-10-26. Government of the State of Israel and Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Treaty of Peace: establishes peace on exchange of ratification instruments, declares the Mandate-referenced Annex I(a) boundary permanent without prejudice to the status of the 1967 territories, recognises Jordan and Yarmouk water allocations under Annex II, defers refugees to the Multilateral Working Group and permanent-status-linked negotiations and displaced persons to a quadripartite committee with Egypt and the Palestinians, and respects Jordan’s special role in Jerusalem’s Muslim Holy shrines; Annexes I-V not reproduced in the file.
  • Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (13 September 1993) — 1993-09-13. Government of the State of Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization, Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (A/48/486–S/26560): an elected Council and five-year transitional period leading to a permanent settlement based on resolutions 242 and 338, with Jerusalem, refugees and settlements reserved to permanent status negotiations.
  • Protocol on Economic Relations (Paris Protocol), Annex IV to the Gaza-Jericho Agreement (29 April 1994) — 1994-04-29. Government of the State of Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization, Protocol on Economic Relations (Paris Protocol), Annex IV to the Gaza-Jericho Agreement: the interim period’s economic contract — list-based Palestinian import autonomy inside Israeli rates, standards and clearance, a monetary authority without a currency, and labour, agriculture, industry, tourism and insurance articles.
  • Annapolis Conference Joint Understanding on Negotiations (27 November 2007) — 2007-11-27 — Annapolis Joint Understanding launching bilateral negotiations for a peace treaty on all core issues, with Roadmap implementation judged by the United States.
  • Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace — N. Israeli (Akiva Orr and Moshé Machover), Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace (“Bokhan”, Jerusalem, 1961; English translation by Mark Marshall, 2009): an argument from Israeli press material that Israel’s wars were not wars of no choice — Britain covertly directed the 1948 Arab invasion through the Arab League, and the secret Ben-Gurion–Abdullah accord divided the projected Palestinian state’s territory and prevented its creation. Read in part: PDF p.1-62 of 581 in part 1 of 11 (front matter and introductions, Chapter 1 in full, and Chapter 2 through the West Bank annexation debate).

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