Resources on Israel’s Peace Efforts

Our “Misled” video covers a broad range of initiatives, quotes, and research. This resource page backs up the points and offers in-depth reading.

Disengagement from Gaza

• What Israel Gave Up in Gaza for Peace
• Website of Gush Katif Settlements
• Foreign Ministry article on Disengagement – includes the plan and cost of the plan
• Evaluating International Approaches to Security and Aid Following Disengagement in Gaza
• Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Address to the Nation at Start of Disengagement

Teaching Peace and Co-Existence

• CNN report on Hand-in-Hand School in Jerusalem
• An Israeli Teacher Helps Kids become Emissaries for Hope
• Palestinian and Israeli Kids Team Up
• Palestinian and Israeli Peace Retreat
• Valley of Peace
• Peres Center for Peace

Israeli Attitudes Towards Two-State Solution

• Poll from Hebrew University

West Bank Building Freeze

• Wall Street Journal article by Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren: “Prime Minister Netanyahu has broken with his party to restart the peace process.”
• An Israeli View: From Settlement Freeze to Baby Steps
• Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Offers to Extend Settlements Freeze

Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

• Monthly Aid to Gaza
• Weekly Report of Aid to Gaza
• Video of Aid Transfer to Gaza
• 14,000 Tons of Aid to Gaza

Recognizing A Palestinian State

• Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech to U.S. Congress, May 2011
  • At 5:23 – 5:36: “All six Israeli Prime Ministers since the signing of the Oslo Accords agreed to establish a Palestinian state, myself included.”
  • At 7:57 – 8:02: “I stood before my people and I said I will accept a Palestinian state.”
• Ehud Barak
  • At 14:47, he says (in middle of sentence): “…and we will do whatever could be done to bring peace for Israel and the middle east and a better future for all our children.”
• Ehud Olmert (in Hebrew, subtitled in English)
  • At :40, he says “We want peace.”

Photos of Diplomacy and Negotiations

• Begin and Sadat (from Wikipedia)
• Begin and Sadat (from U.S. Library of Congress)
• Rabin and Hussein (from Wikipedia)
• Rabin and Arafat (from Wikipedia)
• Sharon and Abbas (from Wikipedia)
• Sharon and Abbas at the Red Sea Summit in Aqaba (from Wikipedia)
• Netanyahu and Arafat (from Israel’s National Photo Collection)

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