Israeli and the Palestinian present: A temporary arrangement in the West Bank for ethnonational ongoing conflict

Abstract

This study argues that a political reality of a temporary arrangement has been solidified in Judea and Samaria since 2005, right after Abu Mazen was elected to be the President. It based on integrative approach suggests here for the first time and falls between the political peace process and the armed struggle approaches as a possible solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is a result of social-political change within the Palestinian society: the Palestinian Authority has been concerned about maintaining its civil achievements since 2007, based on Fayyad’s program of building Palestinian statehood from the “bottom up.”Israel has used to deepen its security and settlement hold on the ground.This situation guarantees continuation of Israeli political and security dominance in this region; one de facto political entity is being settled between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, where two distinctly different communities are living side by side.

Keywords:

• West Bank
• Palestinian Authority
• Israel
• temporary arrangement

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

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Funding

The author received no direct funding for this research.