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choices. All were based on the accumu-
lation of Israeli power.
• In the late 1950s, a young Shimon
Peres helped establish the Israeli nuclear
program and the military link to the
United States.
• In June 1967, Levi Eshkol decided
to preemptively strike Arab neighbors.
In the aftermath of the war, Golda Meir
chose to annex Jerusalem, build Israeli
settlements in the territories, apply
Israeli law to the Golan Heights.
• In 1973-74, Meir chose to sign
agreements with Egypt's President Sadat.
• In 1978, Menachem Begin accepted
the notion of Palestinian autonomy and
chose to sign a peace treaty with Egypt
in 1979.
• In 1991, Yitzhak Shamir opted not
to retaliate to the Iraqi SCUD attacks;
he chose to negotiate with Arab states at
the 1991 Madrid Middle East Peace
Conference.
• In 1993 and afterwards, Yitzhak
Rabin voluntarily signed the Oslo
Agreements with the Palestinians and
agreed to return portions of the West
Bank and Gaza Strip to the Palestinians.
He enthusiastically signed a peace treaty
with Jordan in 1994.
• In 1997, Bibi Netanyahu finally
chose to share the religiously important
city of Hebron with the Palestinians,
giving up the political right's cherished
ideology of Greater Israel.
The central turning point in all of the
above was the June 1967 war. David
slew the Arab Goliath. Israel held the
Syrian Golan Heights, all of Jerusalem,
the West Bank, Gaza Strip, all of
Egyptian Sinai — and controlled the
lives of half the world's Palestinians.
The Arab world, Israelis, diaspora
Jews, and a world community learned
that the Jewish state was not subject to
destruction. Emerging from the conflict,
was an American dominated 30-year
process of negotiating Israeli agreements
and treaties with the Arab world. The
essence of negotiations were: Under
what conditions, over what period of
time, and what security agreements
would Israel receive if and when she
returned some or all of the territories
taken in the June 1967 war?
y
et, as Ehud Barak noted recent-
ly, it's much more complicated
than wars and peace treaties.
Nothing occurs in a vacuum.
The Jewish people are at a crossroads.
With its economy booming and with
the Arab-Israeli conflict evolving into a
series of Arab-Israeli relationships, Israel
is redefining its character and soul.
Israel's doinestic agenda is no longer