- Prof. Efraim Karsh
- July 4, 2016
- Paper No. 346
The proposition that โoccupationโ is to blame for Palestinian terrorism defies history, reality, and logic. Israelโs control of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza has been virtually nonexistent for twenty years, ever since the 1995 interim agreement and the 1997 Hebron redeployment. Palestinian terrorism has increased not in response to the โoccupation,โ but in response to its ending.