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Since 1948, these strategic concepts have been part of Israel's military doctrine. They've influenced Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to this day. The terms "territorial compromise" and "land for peace" refer to Allon's rejection of Palestinian self-determination. They still do now.
Israel makes genuine negotiations impossible by demanding one-sided advantages. Everything for Israel! Nothing for Palestinians with rhetoric formulated to disguise it, mainly by planning later final status talks that never come.
It's been that way since the first April 1949 Lausanne, Switzerland peace conference, proposing a three-tier agreement, including:
- diaspora Palestinians' unconditional right of return;
- Jerusalem as an international city; and
- a two-state solution, on equal portions of land.
Israel rejected it. It kept 78% of historic Palestine and granted Jordan the right to annex the West Bank and part of Jerusalem.
Egypt controlled Gaza. Peace efforts were suspended, and weren't resumed until the 1967 Six Day War left the West Bank and Gaza occupied. As a result, an unfavorable negotiating environment was created.
Today's situation is intolerable with over 500,000 settlers controlling over 40% of what Palestinians want for their state. Moreover, they're hamstrung by expanding settlements, Israel's Separation Wall, military bases, no-go areas, nature reserves, Jews-only roads, hundreds of checkpoints and barriers, as well as other impediments to real peace.
Combined, they've restricted Palestinians to shrinking cantonized communities surrounded by growing numbers of hostile Jews. They, in turn, want Judea and Samaria for themselves as well as all Jerusalem as their capital.
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