Back to Square One? The Netanyahu Government and the Prospects for Middle East Peace

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Notes

¹ Reflecting the problematic political practice of excluding Arab parties from government coalitions, pollsters do usually not even consider the views of Arab Israelis on these issues.

² See Arian (2003), Ben Meir and Shaked (2007: 52–9) and Ben Meir (2009).

³ In September 1967, the Legal Counsel of the Foreign Ministry, Theodor Meron, informed the foreign minister and Prime Minister Levi Eshkol through his political secretary in a secret note with attached legal opinion that civilian settlement in the territories violated the Fourth Geneva Convention. See Gorenberg (2007: 99).

⁴ Contrary to Israeli claims, the Palestinian West Bank leadership and Jordan's King Hussein desired a peaceful accommodation with Israel immediately after the 1967 war. See Raz (2008).

⁵ Ben Meir (2009).

⁶ Mahmoud Abbas, quoted in Jackson Diehl, ‘Abbas's waiting game’, Washington Post, 29 May 2009; and Olmert's interview with Newsweek (‘Olmert's laments’), 13 June 2009.

⁷ Taghreed El-Khodary and Ethan Bronner, ‘Addressing US, Hamas says it grounded rockets’, New York Times, 4 May 2009.