US Partiality in the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Negotiations: Camp David II and the Deal of the Century

Abstract

The Palestine-Israel conflict is one of the regional conflicts that has occupied the international system since 1948. Although many academic studies have been carried out to resolve the conflict, both the reluctance of the conflict parties and the preferences and behavior of the United States, which is trying to play a mediating role, are among the reasons why the problem has not been resolved to date. On the other hand, Israel, through the USA, is trying to legitimize the gains it has achieved since 1948 by acting as if it is making peace rather than making peace in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, and in this context, to gain the support of the international public. The hypothesis of the study you are about to read is that although the United States tried to assume a mediating role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, it adopted a biased attitude in favor of Israel, which does not comply with the basic qualifications of a mediator. In order to test this hypothesis, World War II, which the United States claimed to have carried out to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, was carried out. Camp David and Deal of the Century plans will be examined as examples. The data to be obtained and the evaluations to be made throughout the study will be discussed within the framework of the concept of mediation, which is considered one of the traditional methods of conflict resolution. Thus, it is aimed to contribute to the Palestine-Israel conflict reaching a solution with the characteristics of "positive peace", which is the ideal and ultimate goal of modern conflict resolution techniques.