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Understanding the conflict

The Road Map



The full text of the Road Map

Israeli Government communique on the Road Map 25 May 2003 Statement from the PM's bureau [With the 14 Israeli remarks attached]

The Government of Israel, today (Sunday), 25.5.03, considered the Prime Minister's statement on the Roadmap, as well as Israel's comments on its implementation. Following its deliberations, the Government, by a majority vote, resolved...

1. 'Don't hold your breath. Hopes for Middle East peacemaking are premature.'

Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian, 16 April 2003

c. 1200 words

'...it's best, when gazing at the Middle East, to put aside the rose-coloured spectacles. For there is every reason to be sceptical, rather than hopeful, about the intentions of both the Israeli and US administrations.'

2. Time to engage: The People's Road Map

Outlines of an international lobbying campaign

Proposed by Jeff Halper, March 2003

3. This is a road map to nowhere

The Palestinians need an end to occupation, not bogus statehood

Ahmad Samih Khalidi

The Guardian, 19 March 2003

c. 800 words

4. Road map in the air

The Other Israel, April-May, Editorial Overview

c.4, 400 words

5. A Citizens Based Road Map to a Permanent Two State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information, IPCRI

Suggested by Gershon Baskin and Zakaria al Qaq 12th May 2003

c. 2,000 words

6. The Guaranteed Failure of the Road Map

Tanya Reinhart

Yediot Aharonot, May 14, 2003

c. 750 words

7. A road map to nowhere: Or much ado about nothing

Uri Avnery

c.1,600 words

8. Betting on Abu Mazen - to Lose

Bradley Burston

Ha'aretz, ? 01/05/2003

c.1,300 words

9. The Roadmap Hoax

Alexander Cockburn, Znet, 1 June 2003

c.800 words


10. The state Sharon is talking about

Amira Hass, Ha'aretz, 28 May 2003

c.1,200 words

11. Road Map Blues

Mother Jones, 6 June 2003 c. 1,200 words How much of a success was the " road map" summit? It depends on who you ask. An overview of reactions to the summit.

12. A Drug for the Addict

Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom, 23 August 2003

c. 1,300 words How the military destroyed the hudna (truce) - and the Road Map.

13. Where next?

Afif Safieh, Palestinian General Delegate to the United Kingdom and to the Holy See, talks to Julia Bard and Vivien Lichtenstein about the prospects of the Road Map leading to a lasting and just peace. Safieh took an extremely optimitic view at the time of this interview just before the summer of 2003.

First published in Jewish Socialist No 48, Summer 2003 c. 3,500 word

14. From Barak to the Road Map

Baruch Kimmerling

New Left Review 23 September-October 2003

c.5,000 words

Baruch Kimmerling uses a review of Ran Edelist's biography Ehud Barak: Fighting the Demons to give his interpretation of the trajectory from Oslo to the Road Map. For him '[a] minimal requirement of a realistic peace plan is to give the Palestinians some possibility of achieving one of their major aims: a sovereign state over 22 per cent of historic Palestine.' Barak's 'generous offer' wouldn't even approach this; while Sharon, in Kimmerling's view, is engaged in the 'politicide' of the Palestinian people, that is the attempt, doomed to failure, of destroying their 'prospects -indeed, their very will - for legitimate self-determination and sovereignty over land they consider their homeland'.

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