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6 unusual facts about Road map for peace


2003 in the Palestinian territories

June 4 – "Road map" for peace: Israeli Prime Minister Sharon promises to dismantle illegal settlements in the West Bank, while new Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas renounces all terrorism against Israel.

Ahmed Qurei

Ahmed Qurei and other critics claim that these organizations exhibit internal corruption and lawlessness; United States-led mediators have blamed them for preventing the advance of the "Road map for peace".

Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

The latter Road map for peace of 2002 abandoned the Oslo Accords and envisioned a rather loose scheme of withdrawal.

Road map for peace

; reopen Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem; improve humanitarian situation, full implementaton Bertini report, easing movement; freeze on settlement expansion and dismantling of settlement outposts built since 2001.

Israel also did not freeze settlement expansion, nor dismantle outposts built since 2001, another requirement of the Roadmap.

According to Crooke, the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair played an important role in the developement of a 2003 MI6 plan for a wide-ranging crackdown on Hamas.


Israeli settlement timeline

The Israeli Supreme Court gives the Israeli government 45 days to explain why it hasn't taken down the illegal outpost of Migron in accord with its commitments to the 2003 Road map for peace plan.


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