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from PART ONE - A NEW TYPE OF STATE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
In 1996, Yassir Arafat said he planned to declare Palestine a state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened that if he did, Israel would reoccupy sectors of the West Bank of the Jordan River that it took in 1967 but turned over to a Palestinian administration under a 1993 agreement. Netanyahu said that a declaration of Palestine statehood would nullify the Israeli-Palestinian agreement.
The strong Israeli reaction underscored the explosive character of the statehood issue in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. As far as the Israeli government was concerned, Palestine statehood might come at the end of a process of negotiation but not before. If statehood were to materialize for Palestine, it would be on terms negotiated with Israel, which might involve significant constraints on Palestine’s freedom of action. Statehood was to be the reward for an agreement in which Israel might gain major concessions in return for recognizing Palestine as a state.
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