Conference VI: In Tel Aviv the Israelis under their new PM prepare for the conference. Israeli PM, Likud Party Leader, Extreme right Israeli leader of the Settlers, Pro-Peace Israeli leader, Israeli Ambassador to the US and Chief Israeli Negotiator are present.
Please list who all participated in the conference and a brief summary of what was discussed and concluded at the event.
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My role in the simulation is the Israeli Prime Minister. I have taken the role of Tzipi Livni who is the current Acting Prime Minister. Within our group we discussed the most important issues and how to obtain a deal. There was a disagreement over some major issues. The Extreme right Israeli leader of the Settlers was not open to a 2 state solution. She constantly kept trying to impose the notion of a one state. So when we brought up the issue that if we had a one state that the Palestinians would outnumber the Jews, and her solution was to kick out all the Palestinians so that it wouldn’t be an issue anymore. She didn’t see the right of return for the Palestinian refugees as an issue and was not negotiable at all; she doesn’t want them to return ever to Israel. I agreed with her a certain extent that if we were to allow all the Palestinians to return after a peace deal was achieved then Jews would not be the majority anymore. The head of the Likud Party was in the same boat, that there should be a one state solution. But the I, the Israeli PM, am for the 2 state solution and that is what we finally agreed on.
We discussed some possible threats to Israel if we were to strike a peace deal. The threat of Palestine and Iran making a deal would be a huge threat to the security of Israel. So we came up with the idea that we need a guarantee from the Palestinians that in the long run if they do gain sovereignty than Israel needs disclosure of their military sales and possible deal with the United States so that the Palestinians will not turn to Iran. Palestine must have a secular government because Islamic extremism will ruin Israel. To enforce this Palestine must have a mixed member proportional representative government at maybe a 5% threshold (TBD), so that we will not be like Lebanon and have an extremist organization such as Hizbollah coming to power. On the issue of the settlements, Israel will provide funding to the people so they will move just as we did in Gaza. It is important to note that if a Palestinian state is formed initially they would not have all the attributes of a state so when Israel discussed this notion of an independent state is actually referring to a self-administrating entity, with only partial sovereignty.
My name is Aryey Eldad and I am a member of the Knesset from the Moledet party. It's been far too long since the Israeli government has tried to negotiate with the Arabs. For decades the Israeli government has been working against the interest of its own citizens and giving concessions to Arabs who have no claim to Israel, and for what? More violence? More innocent Israelis to die? The Israeli must return to its original purpose: to secure the Jewish state of Israel. Israelis have a legitimate claim to this land not only through scripture but by the economic development of the land. Israel is a strong nation because of the blood, sweat, and tears of its Jewish citizens, not because of any Arab. Arabs have done nothing to make this land better and more fruitful. They've only given this land violence and terror.
The Israeli government now is giving too many concessions and is not looking out for the interest of its citizens. Disengaging settlements in the Gaza strip violates the right of Jews to live and settle in any part of Israel. There is no such thing as Palestine and there has never been a nation called Palestine. The government is audacious enough to even suggest the disengagement of settlements in the West Bank. This would result in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens from their homes. Israel cannot give into the demands of terrorists at the expense of their own people.
Hello I am Amram Mitzna and I serve as the Israeli Pro Peace Leader for the state of Israel. The bloodshed between Israel and the neighboring Palestine must end and one guaranteed way of inhibitating the peace process is through military force. This may sound contradictory to my resume since I have served as the Major general in the Israeli Defense Force. Being an active part of the Labour Political Party, I've seeked the Prime Minister position in 2002 however due to the political party's horrible performance, was then an active promotor of the peace process. Myself, including the other Israeli council on my team in this conference, believe that the two-state theory is plausible with certain exceptions and stipulations. As the prime minister already stated, we felt that we could not give any form of sovereignty to Palestine that would pose as any potential threat to our security. That would include no military for the Palestinian state initially, for this would only complicated certain security measures that we must protect for our own interests. Another key factor in the peace process will be the government form that Palestine must form in order to gain independent power. Any extremist Islamic fundamentalist will not and cannot rule Palestine, for this e Hamas xtremist style rule will pose a threat to Israel as a whole and to the Israeli people. In my own belief, I feel as if with the proper peace negotiations on the table, without the influence of any military force, will result in somewhat successful peace negotiations. I feel that even Palestine has not kept up to its previous negotiations and promises, that negotiations are still necessary and foreseeable. There are major issues that need to be settled for Jerusalem, however we must first get tot he negotiations table to even start to discuss them, both sides will sacrifice while at the same time gain. (Shazim Uppal)
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