Arafat takes the deal

What if in the year 2000, Yasir Arafat accepted the Israeli offer to withdraw 100 % from Gaza and 95 % from the West Bank.
 
I think people are painting with too broad of brush strokes here on some things, and not addressing other critical issues.

Who kills Arafat? Is it Hamas? Another faction of Fatah? A "lone" assassin? And what happens afterwards?

Who succeeds Arafat as leader of the Palestinian government? Who is the legitimate successor? Is it automatic, or does someone have to be appointed by a Palestinian legislature? Whoever the successor is, what does he do?

Israel now has no "occupied territories". Does that mean everything is now fine, or do the anti-Zionists manufacture another excuse for terrorism, protests, etc.

How does the Palestinian government govern? It was notoriously corrupt and inefficient. By making peace, it has ended the need for any "resistance" and thus no longer has any major excuse for why it tolerates such corruption. What is the result? Does Hamas take over in the next election? Does Fatah rule as a party dictatorship? Can an opposition form that is not based on Islamism or continued terror attacks against Israel?

After Arafat's death, does the Palestinian government renege on any part of its agreement? Borders may not be disputed, but what about security arrangements and preventing any attacks from being launched against Israel? If that happens, how does Israel respond?
 
a big problem with any 'Palestine in the WB and Gaza' plan is that there are still a lot of Palestinians who think all of Israel should be given back to them; at the same time, Israel has it's share of fanatics who think the WB and Gaza (and other places) should be annexed as part of Israel. A peace plan along those lines will leave both sides having to deal with it's minority fanatics...
 
What if in the year 2000, Yasir Arafat accepted the Israeli offer to withdraw 100 % from Gaza and 95 % from the West Bank.

These are big misconceptions. What Arafat was offered at Camp David by Barak and Bill Clinton was nothing close to this. What was offered was:

- Full withdrawal from Gaza
- 91% of the West Bank, with Israelis annexation big chunks of territory east of Jerusalem and in the Northern West Bank around Ariel.
- A symbolic "1% land-swap" of unspecified territory.

No actual map was produced - just this as a basis for discussion. Israel would also have maintained control of all of Palestine's borders and airspace, and would have had control of a long corridor of territory east of Jerusalem with the authority to cut off traffic between the northern and southern West Bank for security reasons.

Finally, regarding Jerusalem, Barak was willing to grant a few Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, along with (more generously) split sovereignty over the Old City and some kind of sovereign division of the Temple Mount.

NO Palestinian leader, even one considerably better than Arafat, could have accepted these provisions.

Israeli negotiators DID make a more generous offer in January of 2001 at the Taba negotiations, where they did put forth something more similar to what you described - a 5-6% annexation plus a 2-3% landswap, so something approximating 97% of the West Bank. But talks at that point ran out of time and were called off due to the impending Israeli PM election which Sharon won.
 
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