Jeffrey Goldberg / The New Yorker (May 2004)
Comprehensive and stirring profile of the Israeli settlement enterprise that examines its history, ideology,
adherents, leaders, and the challenges it poses for Israel. Read More >
April 16, 2004
Full text of Sharon's plan to evacuate all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the
northern West Bank. The plan was implemented in August of 2005. Read More >
Shibley Telhami / Basic Books (2004)
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International Crisis Group (2004)
Report that seeks to identify those actors and factors most likely to determine how Palestinian refugees will react
to a negotiated agreement of the refugee question. It also assesses the prospects for the implementation of a
permanent status agreement. PDF >
Arie Arnon and Nu'man Kanafani (2004)
Report that develops a macroeconomic framework to analyze the implications of resettling returning refugees and
rehabilitating the Palestinian economy under an assumed overall political settlement. PDF >
Third World Quarterly (2003)
Study proposing that Islamic militancy, poverty, youth and personality patterns contribute to the explanation of
support for Palestinian suicide bombings, as well as proneness to participate in them. PDF >
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (January - June, 2003)
Poll conducted in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, and Lebanon showing Palestinian public opinion on refugees'
socio-economic conditions, peace settlement issues, and expected refugee behavior under a specific peace solution
and under various conditions of re-settlement. Read More >
NPR News (2002)
Seven-part series on the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reported by Mike Shuster, that attempts to
revisit the significant episodes of that history and give both Palestinian and Israeli historians an opportunity to
explain how they see it differently. Read More >
David Remnick / The New Yorker (May 6 2002)
Profile of Sari Nusseibeh, then the Palestine Liberation Organization's chief representative in Jerusalem and a
professor of philosophy. Also delves into the situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories during the second
Intifada, with a focus on Palestinian suicide bombings. Read More >
Akiva Eldar / Palestine-Israel Journal (Spring 2002)
Interview with Yossi Beilin and Nabil Sha'ath, the main Israeli and Palestinian negotiators at the Taba conference
of January 2001, about the Palestinian refugee problem and progress achieved on the issue. Read More >