Why have attempts to implement the peace settlement of 1993 failed? The long running feud between the Arabs and Israelis has been going on for hundreds of years

on September 13th. After many tiring months of meetings, Yasser Arafat repeated his 1988 assertions: the PLO would recognize the state of Israel, wanted peace, and renounced terrorism and violence. This was a historic event in the Middle East history as it was the first time the Arabs and Palestinians had met face to face in secret which bridged a huge gap between the 2 states. The first stage of the agreement was withdrawal of Israeli troops from 60% of Gaza and from the West Bank town of Jericho. The agreement planned a timetabled withdrawal of Israeli troops for the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. From then on a Palestinian authority was set up under Yasser Arafat and was elected President in 1995. The Palestinian Authority enjoys so far an international recognition as the organization representing the Palestinian people. Today it has an observer status in the United Nations, and receives considerable funds as aid from the European Union, the United States and Israel. But all this work was always in vain. Extremists from both sides of the Israelis and Arabs have carried out terrorist acts and prevent the final agreement of peace between both sides being put into operation. Terrorism has always been a problem in the Middle East. This was no different on Sept.14, 1993 when Arafat and Rabin signed a peace treaty. When this agreement was signed Iran and other Islamic Fundamentalists were filled with rage and violence. Two Palestinians committed violent terrorist acts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. One man strapped a bomb to his chest and detonated it in a police station. Fortunately he was the only casualty. Other countries such as Lebanon promoted terrorism. Hezbollah leader sheikh Hassan Nasrallah spoke in front of 8,000 people, "Victory to Islam; death to Israel... war...war until victory." This speech only created more violence and chaos in the Middle East. The Islamic militant Hamas has been a thorn in the side of agreement being made. They are often to blame for the suicide bombings. These series of Suicide bombings will always effect the progression of peace as long as they continue to do it.         The situation is still a long way from being solved The Palestinian economy is almost entirely dependent on Israel, both when it comes to export and import. The primary resource of the Palestinian economy is cheap and well-educated labour and the most important industry is agriculture. Poverty is widespread on the West Bank and in Gaza and the conditions in the refugee camps in Gaza are miserable. There is no social security for the poor population and dependence on foreign assistance increases continuously. The Israelis are within a strong economical situation they have a strong alliance with the US and the financial aid has helped them a lot The conflict with the Palestinians has a large impact on the Israeli society and mainly due to religion with about 1 fifth of the community being non-Jewish. The Israelis are trying to build a wall in Palestinian territory to prevent further attacks on there land. Obviously this will have consequences it will effectively isolate Palestinian population centers from one another, and restrict not only freedom of movement of individuals but also of goods and services, thereby worsening an already crippled Palestinian economy. This may start more upheaval along with the continued battle with the terrorism. All these issues are effecting the progression of peace between both sides and still today the situation is along way from being solved