Paper 10: A Real Partner for Peace?

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Sources for Paper 10: A Real Partner for Peace? 

·         Text of the Oslo “Declaration of Principles”

·         Camp David according to the PLO

·         For more on Gaza, see Paper 7
·         "The Palestine Papers" were released by Al-Jazeera. 

·         Casualties: The statistics and numbers of the casualties quoted from Operation Cast Lead have been added from the reports of B’Tselem and can be viewed here

·         Israel’s control of historic Palestine: the figure 90% is derived from the fact that:

o    60% of the West Bank/Gaza is controlled by Israel, Area C (this is generous given that Israel also partially controls Area B)

o    76.95% + 60%/21.71% = 89.98%

o    Israel (all areas according to the CIA Factbook): 20 770 sq km.

o    West Bank: 5860 sq km

o    Gaza: 360 sq km

o    Total Area: 26 990 sq km

§  Israel: 76.95%

§  West Bank: 21.71%

§  Gaza: 1.33%

·         Military Strength:

o    Report by the Institute for Middle East Understanding, fully referenced, see the article for more references.

o    Also see: Israeli Military Strength by Global Fire Power (the reference cited is the CIA, but we were unable to independently confirm the veracity of this source).

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