The American Position towards the Establishment of the Palestinian State: From the Oslo Accord to the Deal of the Century (1993–2020)

Authors : Ahmed Asmar

Pages : 1-15

Doi:10.31456/beytulmakdis.1288639

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Publication Date : 2024-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The end of the Cold War period in the early 1990s crowned the United States of America (US) as the sole superpower in the world, allowing it to engage more actively in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The consecutive US administrations of President Clinton, President Bush and President Obama made efforts in addressing the conflict but all failed to reach a settlement where negotiations were stuck during addressing the final status issues including the problem of the Israeli settlements and the status of Jerusalem. Yet, the Trump administration took a different radical approach and imposed a unilateral peace proposal that sided the Israeli narrative known as “Deal of the Century” as announced in 2020. Under these US approaches and initiatives, and under the claim that the Palestinians rejected most of these initiatives or were the side that failed these US peace initiatives, the question that arises in mind is that to what extent did the American position address the minimum aspiration of the Palestinian people in establishing their own independent state? The article, therefore, will attempt to answer this core question. Overall, the paper suggests that the US was not a fair peace broker when it comes the Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. It did not use any form of pressure on the Israeli side to deal with Palestine question fairly, but instead chose to blame always the Palestinians who have been under the brutal Israeli occupation for the last 70 odd years. The US has so far never taken into account any comments, concerns or reservations of the Palestinians over its own peace initiatives but accepted and adopted the Israeli concerns, comments and wishes. The article writing method generally follows the descriptive analytical approach in addition to highlighting the official statements and documents related to the topic in order to clarify the US position towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, to understand the limits and parameters of the US position, and to eventually give an assessment on the US position regarding any future approach by the US administration to tackle the decades-long conflict.
Keywords : Filistin, İsrail, Kudüs, ABD Yönetimi, Oslo Anlaşması, Yüzyılın Anlaşması