Winter 1988-89
Kenneth Stein, “The Palestinian Uprising and the Shultz Initiative,” Middle East Review, Volume 21, No. 2 (Winter 1988-1989), pages 13-20.
In early 1988, for the second time within eight years, the Reagan Administration reacted to events in the Middle East by proposing that the stalled Arab-Israel negotiating process be reactivated. The Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which began in earnest in December 1987, prompted an otherwise reluctant Administration to try to revive active diplomacy as the road to peace. The Shultz Initiative was exceptional because the Reagan Administration had previously operated from the premise that it would studiously avoid involvement in the negotiating process until it found the regional actors seriously ready to engage on issues of substance.
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