Although some histories of the conflict between Zionists/Israelis and Palestinians call the totality of the struggle the “Arab-Israeli conflict,” the term more properly refers to a fifty-year period between the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and the Oslo Accords of 1993, when the goal of much of the world was to make peace between Israel and its neighbors and the question of the Palestinians seemingly dropped by the wayside. From 1948 to 1967, the conflict settled into a stalemate, with Arab states refusing to recognize Israel and Israel consolidating the state at home. That stalemate was broken with the 1967 war, which created a dynamic bargaining proposition: land-for-peace. With the exception of an Israel-Egypt peace treaty in 1979, whereby Israel withdrew from the Sinai, that proposition proved elusive for a variety of reasons, perhaps the most significant of which was Israeli settlement policies.
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