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The Two-State Road: Israel and Palestine
The State of Palestine's birth was a long and complex progress that did not see much visible process until the Gore Administration came and the events that sprung up along with their reactions to them helped lead to the establishment of the state and Israel's acceptance of their presence. It took several years and effort on many people on part to reach here. As Palestine has been on the rise thanks to the investments in the information and service sectors among various other areas along with assisting in the Iraqi-Syrian War along with general peacekeeping, there has been a celeberation and a look back:
The Timeline
May-June 2003: Iran finalizes its deal with the United States. During the negotiations Gore was challenged on some of the pro orthodoxy positions regarding Israel, and ultimately decides to do some of his own homework. In the process he learns that the conflict is more complicated than expected Gore publically announces his reasoning in the press conference and goes into detail about why he's making the deal. The details go into wanting to secure peace and stability in the region, noting the troubling background behind the history and wanting to go into the future. He knows how religious extremism has been detrimental to everyone involved and how various groups (such as Hamas), have been doing more harm than good and noting if their relationship based on antagonism would fare in the long run. As per the deal, Iran pulls all funding on groups like Hezbollah and Hamas while Gore notes that if any other nations are funding Hamas, to cease lest public investigations will lead to further discoveries.
December 2003: The Geneva Initiative is announced. Gore is intrigued by the deal.
April 2004: Sharon publically announces the withdrawal plan. Gore's response is that he thinks it has the potential to be good, but that it has to involve full justice for the Palestinians. He explains that unless the Palestinians have full control over their own water supply airspace, borders roads etc than it won't really be a state, and invites Sharon to Camp David to discuss the issue further. Sharon is grudgingly forced to attend.
May 2004: The meeting is is stonewalled by the obstructive progress done by Sharon and other special interest groups. Comments about the affair are leaked to the media and groups such as AIPAC along with certain Republican politicians attempt to use the ordeal to try and turn the people against Al Gore. However, this backfires to various degrees; Gore just points to the politicians trying to use the issue as a distraction from the Exxon-Mobil scandal and even ties it in for the desire for American imperialism tied with foreign oil. AIPAC meanwhile has to try and answer
why the deal is so bad and the lack of progress before hand. Gore's successes overshadow the accusations and the accusations become turned against the people.
November 2004: With Gore's reelection, the Likud party becomes fractured over the fallout of handling it. Eventually, the moderates who realize that they could get pummeled if they stood around with their hardliner colleagues. A vote of no confidence from Likud causes the fracture. Instead, over the next months, the Kadima party would split from the Likud party, led by Ehud Olmert, promoting a centralist path and honoring the agreements to try and move forward. A snap election is called and the Kadima party forms a government with the Labour party over the next upcoming months.
April 2005: A peace conference is scheduled to take place at Camp David to try to negotiate a deal. Eventually in May an agreement is reached. Israel will withdraw COMPLETELY from Gaza and turn over ALL infrastructure to the Palestinians in December (the palestinians won't be able to build up an army right away). If after a year things are relatively stable they will do the same thing for the West Bank. At the same time, the Palestinian government must promise to crack down on terrorist actions and tone down the anti semitic propaganda in schools. The deal is announced successfully at the end of the month.
December 2005: The Withdrawal occurs. Control is passed over to the Palestinian authority in Gaza.
January 2006: Fatah manages to win the elections barely after a surprising close election with Hamas, the latter exploiting the massive corruption scandals. However, fears of the deal failing under Hamas were enough to push toward PLA, albeit now under intense scrutiny. Hamas ends up fracturing over the loss of support into differing parties. This leads of certain smaller parties becoming much more popular among the people and former members of both such as the Palestinian National Initiative and the Palestinian Third Way parties. Many people expect that these smaller parties will come to take place of the older ones.
2007: The Palestinian State goes through its first year successfully. Has been working on establishing diplomatic relations with everyone and working on political rules and stability along with corruption. Palestine notes that the "Jerusalem" issue will probably not be solved for another five or even ten years.
2011: Palestine joins Israel, Jordan, the United States and Iran in the Coalition after the Iraqi-Syrian War exploits the Syrian civil war and leads to collapse. Palestinian and Israeli forces working together serve as good propaganda pieces for the effort. Palestine avoids negative growth in the Great Recession.
2012: As part of the new constitution regarding elections, elections for the semi-presidential state. Fatah and Hamas end up as minor parties by this point as the Palestinian National Intiative becomes the winner here, followed by the Palestinian Third Way and the Palestinian Democratic Union. Has established the Palestinian dinar and improving relations and unions.
