Reagan peace plan

The Reagan peace plan, also known as the Reagan Middle East peace plan, was announced by United States president Ronald Reagan during a speech on September 1, 1982. The language of the plan was described as vague. It is based on the outcomes of the Camp David Accords. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) had recently been expelled from Lebanon and forced to relocate to different nations. In reaction to this, the Likud government at the time outright rejected the proposal, but the Israeli Labour Party and Peace Now movement embraced it. When he came to the presidency, Reagan was seen as influenced by the Israeli narrative of the conflict. Settlement construction accelerated as the number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank increased by 70 percent over the first two years of Reagan's presidency. In order to curtail the PLO's influence, Israeli authorities suppressed any advocacy for Palestinian nationalism. Yasser Arafat first made contact with the United States through an intermediary named John Mroz, who at the time was the director of Middle East studies at an institution in New York, proposed the idea of holding secret discussions to establish a channel of communication between the United States and PLO.

Main points

1. A period of 5 years during which the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip obtain full autonomy over their affairs, beginning after free elections are held. Its purpose will be to prove that the Palestinians are capable of managing their own affairs and that Palestinian autonomy will not pose a threat to Israel's security.
2. The United States will not agree to use any additional land for settlement during the transitional period. In fact, the settlement freeze by Israel more than any other measure helps build confidence for broader participation in these talks. Further settlement activity is in no way necessary for Israel's security and weakens Arab confidence that a final outcome can be negotiated freely and fairly.

See also

• Arab Peace Initiative, originally proposed in 1982
• Clinton Parameters, 2000
• John Kerry Parameters, 2016
• Deal of the Century, 2020

Works cited

• Aruri, Naseer H.; Moughrabi, Fouad M. (1983). "The Reagan Middle East Initiative". Journal of Palestine Studies. 12 (2): 10–30. doi:10.2307/2536411. JSTOR 2536411.
• Christison, Kathleen (1999). Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21717-1.

External links

• Address to the Nation on United States Policy for Peace in the Middle East, September 1, 1982