Palestine-Israel Journal

Special Report

Event summaries, photographs, audio recordings and participants' biographies can be accessed at: http://www.pij.org/events.php * Jerusalem: 40 Years Later - Terry Boullata, Naomi Chazan and Nazmi Ju'

Vol. 14 No. 3 2007

The Gaza Disengagement: Palestinian Perceptions and Expectations?

The Gaza disengagement is a positive step but should be followed by others in the rest of the occupied territories.

A public opinion poll was conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) between September 7-9, 2005, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The focus was on the Palestinian p

Vol. 12 No. 2 2005

Dan Jacobson

Lessons from the Disengagement

Either there will be political progress or another disastrous round of violence.

The disengagement from Gaza, from the Israeli point of view, had the attributes of a defining event. Defining events provide the potential for change, but not the change itself. The potential is ther

Vol. 12 No. 2 2005

After the Disengagement: Strategies for the Peace Movement

After the completion of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, 28 Israelis, Palestinians and internationals gathered at the Ambassador Hotel in East Jerusalem on September 15th for a day-long strategy

Vol. 12 No. 2 2005

Omar Karmi

Under the Rainbow

A journalist’s eyewitness report from Rafah

Outside Rafah's main Awda Mosque on May 21, people were gathering for funeral processions. Nine people were reported killed the day before, and in keeping with Muslim tradition, they should all be bu

Vol. 11 No. 2 2004

David Matz

Why Did Taba End? (Part 2)

The Taba talks were a tug of war between negotiators and leaders, constrained by the internal politics of both communities; but they were not a failure.

Who ended the Taba negotiation, and why? Yossi Beilin says that Shlomo Ben Ami and Abu Ala (Ahmad Qurei) agreed to end it, but Abu Ala denies this. Gilead Sher says he and Saeb Erekat were planning f

Vol. 10 No. 4 2003

David Matz

Trying to Understand the Taba Talks

An in-depth analysis of what happened at the Taba peace talks, and why they failed.

From 1993 until 2000 many thought the peace process was moving toward the establishment of a Palestinian state. This began to look inevitable when Ehud Barak was decisively elected Israeli prime mini

Vol. 10 No. 3 2003

Yossi Alpher

Toward an Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian Trilateral Security Regime

Conversation with Hillel Schenker of the PIJ

Yossi Alpher initiated the idea of conducting a workshop focusing on the type of trilateral security regime which could be established once there is a comprehensive peace in the region. He supervised

Vol. 11 No. 1 2004