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Untenable Linkages: Tying a Cessation of Palestinian Violence to an Israeli Settlement Freeze

Untenable Linkages: Tying a Cessation of Palestinian Violence to an Israeli Settlement Freeze

May 15, 2001 | Amb. Dore Gold
Israel has been increasingly facing new diplomatic initiatives that, in effect, call for a freeze in Israeli settlement activity in exchange for a cessation of the eight-month-old, low-scale warfare on the part of the PLO, which the Palestinians call the Al-Aqsa Intifada. This new linkage has arisen in two distinct forms.