According to the Palestinian negotiators the offer did not remove many of the elements of the Israeli occupation regarding land, security, settlements, and Jerusalem.
It allowed a shift towards a more moderate stance among Palestinian Arabs, under the leadership of the Nashashibi clan and even the establishment of the Jewish—Arab under British command, fighting Germans in North Africa.
Unilateral strategies and the rhetoric of hardline political factions, coupled with violence and incitements by civilians against one another, have fostered mutual embitterment and hostility and a loss of faith in the peace process.
Those who justify the legality of the settlements use arguments based upon and of the Fourth , as well as.
Israeli—Palestinian conflict Part of the and the Central and blue , the part of the under full Israeli control, 2011 For a more up-to-date, interactive map, see.
The with the dismantlement of existing Israeli settlements and Palestinian crackdown on militant activity being one strategy.