Izraelsko-palestinský konflikt v roce 2003
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2003

Summary/Abstract: Year 2003 was meant to be the year that would change the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for good, but the violence continued on both sides. There was a new peace plan – the roadmap – and talk of a new Middle East. But as the year ended, the roadmap was not fulfilled. In an attempt to make the roadmap work, peacemakers invented a new post – that of Palestinian prime minister. Mahmoud Abbas was the first man to try the new post. But he did not get very far. He spent most of his premiership in a power struggle with Mr Arafat and he gave up. Last year a group of former Israeli officials and Palestinian ministers was promoting their own proposal – the Geneva Accord. This plan details the exact dimensions of a two state solution. For now, it is just fantasy peacemaking – but its backers are hoping that it could take hold as a serious alternative. Finally, there is the proposal which may be the most important of them all. Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has warned that he will impose what he calls his Disengagement Plan should the Palestinians fail to meet his demands for a new leadership and the dismantling of armed Palestinian factions. Ariel Sharon has decided to give the Palestinians a few months to comply – he will not be any more specific than that. If they do not meet his terms and his timetable, he has warned that he will take unilateral steps to draw up his own borders and to impose a settlement in Israel’s favor.

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