Abstract:
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the complicated crises that traces back to nearly a century ago. It caused severe challenges and brought about disastrous consequences both for the Middle East region and the conflicting parties. Numerous attempts have taken place so far by different states, organizations and individuals to establish a lasting and comprehensive peace in this conflict, but given the intransigence positions of the conflicting parties, the attempts were futile and still there is no light at the end of this tunnel. The limitations of the realistic viewpoint that dominates the conflict and considers its signs rather than its root causes, made us tackle the issue through a proper, more appropriate approach.. To us, critical studies, particularly the emancipation approach which goes beyond the realistic limitations, deliberates the contemporary and historical conditions together with its nature and tries to remove situations leading to the conflict is a more viable strategy to achieve a lasting peace.
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Critical Studies and the Middle East Peace Process Mohammad Reza Maleki * Farzad Mohammadzadeh Ebrahimi** Abstract The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the complicated crises that traces back to nearly a century ago.
Keywords: Critical Theory, Emancipation, Israel, Palestinian,Middle East Peace Process, United States * Ph. D.
I- The Nature of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The conflict between the State of Israel and the Arab states has dominated the political life of the Middle East for decades (Milton- Edwards, 2006, p.
Although the Palestinian/Arab-Zionist conflict was intensified by establishing the State of Israel, its political tensions have been traced back to a century ago.
g. Arabs’ positions towards Israel in the Arab League Summit 1967, that there will be no recognition, no peace and no negotiations with the State of Israel, the so-called ‘Three No’s’), that was more dominant during the 20th century, a trend has been organized as the Middle East peace process of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
Although, the US has carried out numerous attempts in order to achieve peace in the Middle East, supported establishing a Palestinian independent state and considered a full stop to Israeli settlements building in the West Bank, as an important step toward achieving peace (Kessler, 2005; Pipes, 2015), it has never forced Israel to do it.
Conclusion As stated, despite the long-term history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there have been so many attempts since 1970, the goal of which is to establish peace.