Past Peace Agreements/Plans

Israel has two peace treaties with neighboring countries: Egypt (since 1979) and Jordan (since 1994). Beginning with the Madrid Conference in 1992, there was a real effort to come to a peace agreement with the Palestinians. However, this effort fell apart beginning with the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1994. Since then there have also been various Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements, failed attempts at treaties, and suggested peace plans. This page includes the text of some of the agreements/plans.

Background Information

• APN resource sheet on the Roadmap
• Creating a Roadmap Implementation Process – Working paper of James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University

Legal Documents and Reports

• Camp David Accords – From September 1978
• Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt, March 26, 1979
• May 17 Agreement – a failed agreement between Israel and Lebanon (1979)
• Israeli Peace Plan of 1989 – a plan similar to the Camp David Accords, but which did not recognize the PLO; formulated by Prime Minister Shamir and Defense Minister Rabin
• Oslo Declaration of Principles – September 1993
  • Mutual Recognition Letters by the PLO and Israel
• Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty – October 26, 1994
• Oslo Agreement – September 28, 1995
• Beilin-Abu Mazen Agreement – outline for a proposed final status agreement, October 31, 1995
• Wye River Memorandum – In 1998, after the peace process fell apart, the US again began to put pressure on the Israelis and Palestinians to reach an agreement. The meeting took place between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat.
• The Clinton Plan – From December 2000, taken from the Geneva Initiative Website
• The Mitchell Report – In 2000, US president Clinton initiated a summit meeting at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt in an attempt to revive the peace process. The parties agreed to a commission to investigate the causes of the 2nd Intifada violence and to make recommendations. This is the report, published in April 2001
• The Tenant Plan – Proposed by former CIA director George Tenant, June 13, 2001
• Arab League Peace Initiative – From March 2002
• Nusseibeh-Ayalon Agreement - a proposed drafted by President of Al-Kuds University and (at the time) PLO Jerusalem Representative Sari Nusseibeh and former Israeli General Security Service chief Ami Ayalon, August 6, 2002.
• The Roadmap – From April 2003
  • Israel’s Responses to the Roadmap
  • UN Resolution 1515, in support of the Roadmap, November 19, 2003
• The Geneva Accord – December 1, 2003, agreement by Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abd Rabbo
• Beilin: “Mapping the Road from Realignment to Permanent Status,” a proposal, October 2006

Maps

• Oslo II, 1995 – From PASSIA (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs)
• Projection of the West Bank Final Status Map – From PASSIA, Camp David, 2000

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