Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence

David Jaeger () and M. Daniele Paserman

No 1923, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between Israeli fatalities claimed by groups associated with the ruling political party, Fatah, and subsequent Palestinian fatalities. We do not find a similar relationship for Israeli fatalities claimed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian factions. We conjecture that these differences are due to the different positions of the factions vis-à-vis bargaining over a two-state solution to the conflict as well as the organizational structures of the factions.

Keywords: Intifada; terrorism; conflict resolution; bargaining; violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 D71 D74 H56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pbe
Date: Written 2006-01
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
ftp://repec.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp1923.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Israel, the Palestinian Factions and the Cycle of Violence (2006)
Working Paper: Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence (2005)
Journal Article: Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence (2006)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Address: IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Mark Fallak ().