Peace negotiations in the Arab-Israeli conflict

The Case for Israel; Alan Dershowitz
Chapter 16: "Has Israel Made Serious Efforts at Peace?"

p. 108:
"When the Oslo peace process began in the early 1990s, Israel was willing to accept the Palestinian Authority as an equal negotiating partner so long as the Palestinian Authority was willing to accept Israel's right to exist. Never before in history had the winning side of defensive wars been willing to negotiate with the losing side that had started the wars being treated as equals. To regard those who have initiated aggressive wars and lost as equal bargaining partners is to encourage the waging of war as an adjunct to negotiation. There must be a price paid for starting and losing wars. That price includes a diminished status in the postwar peace negotiations."

p. 115:
"It may seem ironic that so soon after Israel offered the Palestinians nearly everything they and the international community wanted -a Palestinian state with Arab Jerusalem as its capital, return of the entire Gaza Strip and almost the entire West Bank, a fair and practical resolution of the refugee issue, and an end to Jewish settlements- it is now a pariah of the international community, European public opinion, and large segments of the American academic and religious left. Israel has become the object of divestiture and boycott campaigns and other efforts at demonization, while the Palestinians -who rejected the peace offer and responded with the systematic and deliberate murder of Israeli civilians- have become the darlings of the same groups."