Author	: Bill Kochman
Publish	: Jan. 18, 1999
Update	: Dec. 8, 2025
Parts	: 03

Synopsis:



While some of the information which is contained in this series is now dated -- being as I did write it just under twenty-seven years ago -- nevertheless, I have decided to proofread and update it, and keep it on the Bill's Bible Basics website due to its historical importance. Also, I have added a lot of new information to the series as well so that it aligns with current events as of the end of the year 2025. The fact is that many modern people are not even aware of how long the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has been going on. Neither are they aware of the different peace plans which have been proposed over the decades, all of which have failed to result in permanent peace between these two peoples.

As I explain in a few other articles, while Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt have sided with Syria in past conflicts against the state of Israel, as some of my readers will know, since that time, each of these countries has negotiated various peace initiatives -- if not full-fledged peace agreements, with Israel. The first of these nations to do this was of course Egypt. Forty-seven years ago in September of 1978, Egyptian President, Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, signed the historic Camp David Accords, in the presence of American President, Jimmy Carter. As a result of his peace overtures with the state of Israel, Anwar Sadat was assassinated not too long after that by Islamic extremists.

While some of you are familiar with the fact that the Camp David Accords dealt with the future of the Sinai Peninsula, and peace arrangements between Israel and Egypt, what fewer people realize, is that the reason they are referred to in the plural -- that is to say, as the Accords -- is because the document signed by Anwar Sadat and Begin was actually a two-part agreement. Peace between Egypt and Israel was only half of the objectives which had been agreed upon in said document.

The second half of the Accords established a format for the conduct of negotiations for the establishment of an autonomy regime in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In other words, the purpose of the Camp David Accords was not just for the establishment of a lasting peace between Egypt and Israel. They were also meant to begin the process which would in the long run result in the establishment of an autonomous -- or self-governing -- homeland for the displaced Palestinians. That is to say, a Palestinian State. My friends, that was over forty-seven years ago!

Tragically, while the Camp David Accords did indeed lead to a lasting peace between Egypt and Israel, the second half of the agreements, which dealt with the future of the West Bank -- that is to say, Judea and Samaria -- and the Gaza Strip, was later interpreted differently by Israel, Egypt, and the United States. Personally, upon reading the contents of the Accords, I can only conclude that their intent is actually quite clear. If any ambiguity has resulted from the Accords, I can only conclude that it is simply another byproduct of Jewish minds, who have no interest or desire whatsoever, in providing a legitimate home for the displaced Palestinians.

As later became clear with the 1998 Wye Memorandum -- which I'll be discussing later on in this same series -- and as I have been saying for a long time, the Jews are masters when it comes to the spoken and the written word. They are expert manipulators who know how to twist and pervert what has been said or written. Those people possess a very keen ability to talk and negotiate for literally years -- decades in fact -- while never really giving up a single thing. That is simply how good they are at what they do.

Furthermore, as some of my readers will know, in some of the latest news reports as we approach the end of 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has completely pulled off the Band-Aid, and plainly stated that as long as he remains in power, the Palestinians will NEVER be given their own state. In short, it has been a long con all along which has lasted for literally decades now. That is the way of those Jews.

Now if you happen to be Jewish, or a pro-Israel Christian who finds my words a bit offensive, or if you doubt that what I'm saying is true, then in all fairness, allow me to present to you a few actual excerpts which are taken from the Camp David Accords of 1978. To reiterate, the various points which are outlined below were in fact agreed upon by both Israel and Egypt, over forty-seven years ago. Perhaps after reading the following material, you will better understand why a certain percentage of the Palestinians deemed it necessary to resort to less than honorable measures -- meaning extreme violence -- in order to achieve their long-sought-for objectives.

Please understand that by my saying this, I am most certainly NOT siding with the Palestinians, or condoning in any way the Palestinian's violence. Perhaps you will also begin to better understand why then Palestinian National Authority president -- Yasser Arafat -- eventually set a deadline of May 4, 1999, as the date when, regardless of what had occurred politically up until that point in time, he would unilaterally declare the establishment of a Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Of course, as we all know now, that boast turned out to be another pipe dream which really never came to fruition. Here then are the aforementioned excerpts from the actual Camp David Accords which pertain to the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state:

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"Egypt and Israel agree that, in order to ensure a peaceful and orderly transfer of authority, and taking into account the security concerns of all the parties, there should be transitional arrangements for the West Bank and Gaza for a period not exceeding five years. In order to provide full autonomy to the inhabitants, under these arrangements the Israeli military government and its civilian administration will be withdrawn as soon as a self-governing authority has been freely elected by the inhabitants of these areas to replace the existing military government."

"When the self-governing authority (administrative council) in the West Bank and Gaza is established and inaugurated, the transitional period of five years will begin. As soon as possible, but not later than the third year after the beginning of the transitional period, negotiations will take place to determine the final status of the West Bank and Gaza and its relationship with its neighbors and to conclude a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan by the end of the transitional period. These negotiations will be conducted among Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the elected representatives of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza."

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While Egypt has had peace for decades now, as I already said, the Palestinians have remained without a legitimate homeland of their own for the very same length of time. In fact, it's been longer than that, because they really became displaced the minute that Israel was declared a nation in May of 1948, in order to accommodate the Jews. Please refer to a few other BBB articles such as "Modern Deception: Shall a Nation Be Born at Once?" and "Modern Deceptions: Return to Israel, the Fig Tree and This Generation" for more details regarding this issue. You will find them listed with clickable links at the end of this same series.

The point is, the Palestinians are more than tired of all Of the Jewish rhetoric and the long con, and they now want to see empty Jewish talk translated into real progress on the ground. Tragically, as is well known, the only facts on the ground they have actually experienced is the West Bank being sliced and diced up even more by the Israelis, as well as the extremely brutal war in the Gaza Strip. This war has now taken the lives of many thousands of Gazan non-combatants, and left the Gaza Strip in ruins. I discuss this topic in more detail in other articles such as "Donald Trump, Gaza, and the Tyre Prophecy" and "Gaza Strip Horrors and the Trump Plan". Again, you will find them listed at the end of this same series.

To be clear, I am fully aware of the fact that Israel used Hamas' slaughter of approximately 1,200 Israeli citizens as a justification for its most recent incursion into the Gaza Strip. Of course, in all fairness, I should mention here that according to certain online sources, there is some degree of ambiguity regarding why Israel did not detect what was about to unfold on that fateful day, as well as regarding exactly how October 7th unfolded in the first place. Was there really failure on the Israeli side, or did they purposely allow the Hamas slaughter to occur? Regardless, as I point out in the aforementioned articles, what Hamas did was wicked, evil and indefensible. Surely they knew how Israel would choose to retaliate, so they share the blame with regard to what has happened in the Gaza Strip since that time over two years ago.

Continuing our discussion concerning the Camp David Accords, as you can see by the previous excerpts, what was initially envisioned as being a maximum of a five-year process, has now stretched out to almost fifty years. The reasons for this are many, and it is only fair to say that all parties concerned are to blame in one way or another. This, of course, includes the Palestinian suicide bombers -- which I discuss in another article entitled "Palestinian Suicide Bombers and Middle East Peace" -- the various intifadas, etc. As far as this writer is concerned, neither side really remains innocent. There is treachery and subterfuge on both sides of the fence.

Now, if you do happen to side with a particular party in this sordid affair, then I can only conclude that unbeknownst to you, you have simply been brainwashed and obviously deceived by the Jewish-controlled mainstream media. If such happens to be the case, I also encourage you to read my article entitled "Gaslighting: We Are Being Manipulated and Surveilled".

What I find sad, is that the language which was incorporated into the Camp David Accords, has been included and expanded upon in various other Middle East peace documents since that time. Despite this fact, as I already said, the Palestinians are still without a homeland of their own as 2025 comes to an end. It is based upon the terms and conditions which were set forth in two of the documents -- which were signed and agreed upon by the Israeli government and the Palestinian Liberation Organization -- that PLO President Yasser Arafat derived his legal authority to unilaterally declare the creation of the Palestinian State in May of 1999.

Upon reading said documents, it appears that Arafat had every legal right to do so, because the Israeli leadership did in fact clearly renege on the terms upon which it had agreed. Of course, the Israelis threw the very same accusation at the Palestinians. In fact, it is common knowledge that whenever two parties go to war, when they eventually decide that it is time to negotiate for peace, the incriminations begin sooner or later. In other words, they accuse each other of breaking the terms of their peace agreement. We hear news of the very same thing occurring between the Russians and the Ukrainians, and between the Israelis and the Palestinians in Gaza right now. So there is nothing new under the Sun, as King Solomon wrote in the following Bible verses:

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us."


At any rate, the first of these two documents was called the Declaration Of Principles, which is also known as the Oslo I Accord. Signed in Washington, DC on the 13th of September in 1993 by Shimon Perez for the government of Israel, as well as by Mahmoud Abbas -- also known as Abu Mazen -- who headed the Palestinian Liberation Organization, this legal and binding document contained some of the very same language which had been included in its predecessor -- that is to say, in the Camp David Accords -- which was signed fifteen years earlier. Following are some selected clauses I have extracted from the Declaration Of Principles to verify this point:

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Article I

AIM OF THE NEGOTIATIONS

The aim of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations within the current Middle East peace process is, among other things, to establish a Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority, the elected Council (the "Council"), for the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, for a transitional period not exceeding five years, leading to a permanent settlement based on Security Council Resolution 242 and 338.

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Article V

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD AND PERMANENT STATUS NEGOTIATIONS

1. The five-year transitional period will begin upon the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and Jericho area.

2. Permanent status negotiations will commence as soon as possible, but not later than the beginning of the third year of the interim period, between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian people representatives.

3. It is understood that these negotiations shall cover remaining issues, including: Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, security arrangements, borders, relations and cooperation with other neighbors, and other issues of common interest.

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Article XIII

REDEPLOYMENT OF ISRAELI FORCES

l. After the entry into force of this Declaration of Principles, and not later than the eve of elections for the Council, a redeployment of Israeli military forces in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will take place, in addition to withdrawal of Israeli forces carried out in accordance with Article XIV.

2. In redeploying its military forces, Israel will be guided by the principle that its military forces should be redeployed outside populated areas.

3. Further redeployments to specified locations will be gradually implemented commensurate with the assumption of responsibility for public order and internal security by the Palestinian police force pursuant to Article VIII above.

Article XIV

ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM THE GAZA STRIP AND JERICHO AREA

Israel will withdraw from the Gaza Strip and Jericho area, as detailed in the protocol attached as Annex II.

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MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

l. This Declaration of Principles will enter into force one month after its signing.

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Annex II

PROTOCOL ON WITHDRAWAL OF ISRAELI FORCES FROM THE GAZA STRIP AND JERICHO AREA

l. The two sides will conclude and sign within two months from the date of entry into force of this Declaration of Principles, an agreement on the withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Gaza Strip and Jericho area. This agreement will include comprehensive arrangements to apply in the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area subsequent to the Israeli withdrawal.

2. Israel will implement an accelerated and scheduled withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Gaza Strip and Jericho area, beginning immediately with the signing of the agreement on the Gaza Strip and Jericho area and to be completed within a period not exceeding four months after the signing of this agreement.

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g. Arrangements for a safe passage for persons and transportation between Gaza Strip and Jericho area.

4. The above agreement will include arrangements for coordination between both parties regarding passages:

a. Gaza--Egypt; and

b. Jericho--Jordan

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Based upon the contents of the Declaration Of Principles, the following year, on May 4, 1994, Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, signed another interim document with then Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. This agreement is known as the Gaza-Jericho Autonomy Agreement, and is also referred to as the Cairo Agreement, being as it was signed in Cairo, Egypt. The signing of this document was witnessed by representatives of the governments of the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Please notice that the Jericho area in eastern Israel is an important element contained in this particular agreement. As a matter of historical interest, and as some of my more Bible knowledgeable readers will already know, Jericho was one of the very first cities which was conquered by Joshua and the Israelites, after they had crossed the Jordan River, coming in from what is now known as Jordan, and then as Moab. You may recall the story of the harlot, Rahab, who protected the Israelite spies by hiding them under her roof. Consider the following group of Bible verses:

"And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country. And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country. And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them. But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof."


"And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent...And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel...And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho."


"By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace."


"Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."


Returning to the Cairo Agreement of 1994, please notice that the following excerpts from said document reiterate the fact that Israel was required to withdraw its IDF military forces from both the Gaza Strip and from the West Bank. Furthermore, it was from the date on which this document was signed -- in other words, on May 4, 1994 -- that the agreed upon five-year interim period was to begin. In short, my friends, five years later, by May 4, 1999, the entire peace process was supposed to have been completed. By that time, the final status of Jerusalem was supposed to be determined, and the Palestinian people were supposed to have their own autonomous homeland. That is to say, a Palestinian State. Here it is in black and white:

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Article II: Scheduled Withdrawal of Israeli Military Forces

1. Israel shall implement an accelerated and scheduled withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Gaza Strip and from the Jericho Area to begin immediately with the signing of this Agreement. Israel shall complete such withdrawal within three weeks from this date'.

2. Subject to the arrangements included in the Protocol in the concerning Withdrawal of Israeli Military Forces and Security Arrangements attached as Annex 1, the Israeli withdrawal shall include evacuating all military bases and other fixed installations to be handed over to the Palestinian police, to be established pursuant to Article IX below (hereinafter "the Palestinian Police").

3. In order to carry out Israel's responsibility for external security and for internal security and public order of settlements and Israelis, Israel shall concurrently with the withdrawal, redeploy its remaining military forces to the Israeli settlements and Military Installation Area, in accordance with the provisions of this agreement. Subject to the provisions of this Agreements, this redeployment shall constitute full implementation of Article XIII of the Declaration of Principles with regard to the Gaza Strip and Jericho Area only.

4. For the purpose of this Agreement, "Israeli military forces" may include Israeli police and other Israeli security forces.

5. Israelis, including Israeli military forces, may continue to use roads freely within the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area. Palestinians may use public roads crossing the settlements freely, as provided for in Annex I.

6. The Palestinian police shall be deployed and shall assume responsibility for public order and internal security of Palestinians in accordance with this Agreement and Annex I.

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4. Upon the completion of the Israeli withdrawal and the transfer of powers and responsibilities as detailed in Annex II, the Civil Administration in the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area will be dissolved and the Israeli military government will be withdrawn. The withdrawal of the military government shall not prevent it from continuing to exercise the powers and responsibilities specified in this Agreement.

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Article XXIII: Final Clauses

1. This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of its signing.

2. The arrangements establishing by this Agreement shall remain in force until and to the superseded by the Interim Agreement referred to in the Declaration Principles or any other agreement between the Parties.

3. The five-year interim period referred to in the Declaration of Principles commences on the date of the signing of this Agreement.

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One point I would like to emphasize here, is that this talk of a five-year interim period, by the end of which time the Palestinian State was supposed to come into existence, had been discussed since 1978 when the Camp David Accords were first signed. So as I pointed out earlier, the Palestinian people have now been relying upon diplomatic means for just under fifty years, just waiting for their dreams to become a reality. It is for this very reason that after waiting for fifteen years -- since 1978 -- the Palestinian people, under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, made sure that clause number three under the Final Clauses section of Article XXIII of the Cairo Agreement, clearly stated "The five-year interim period referred to in the Declaration of Principles commences on the date of the signing of this Agreement".

This was the Palestinian people's legally binding guarantee, which Israel said it would uphold. Through this particular clause, there was thus a very clear record and understanding, that by May 4, 1999, Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, would indeed have a legal right to unilaterally declare the establishment of a Palestinian State, if it had not yet been accomplished. Following are various excerpts taken from a CNN news report dated January 11, 1999, in which Yasser Arafat makes various comments regarding the May 4, 1999 deadline:

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"We cannot bypass that date simply because one of the parties (Israel) wants to keep it hostage to its narrow domestic calculations, by procrastinating and freezing negotiations and agreements ...," Arafat told a group of world leaders and Palestinian lawmakers gathered in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

"We are not going to reverse our position on peace despite everything the present Israeli government is doing. ... We will not go back to confrontation, and we will not allow anybody to stop the historic reconciliation between our peoples," he added.

"We have the full right to say that May 4 is a date to be respected. But at the same time, if the world comes to us with 'What are you going to do on May 4?' we say the question should be addressed by all those who signed the agreement," Erakat said.

Some observers say the Palestinian leadership is looking for a face-saving formula, perhaps one backed by the United States, that would allow a delay in the declaration of statehood.

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