Paths through the site
Six short paths, depending on what you bring with you: no background, doubts, a class, or one story you already know. Each path has a few stops in order, and each stop has one sentence saying what to look at. You can leave a path at any moment.
Starting from zero
For anyone new to the subject who wants to understand what everyone is talking about.
- Start here: peace in five minutesWho the sides are, what was signed and what is still open, in five minutes.
- What it looks likeBefore the agreements, the places themselves: a few pictures from each country and area.
- Egypt–Israel Peace TreatyOne peace treaty up close. Read “In 30 seconds” and “What was agreed”.
- Oslo I – the Declaration of PrinciplesWhat Oslo achieved: mutual recognition, and an interim agreement on the way to a permanent settlement.
- Israel and the Jewish people: roots, memory and choosing lifeHow Israelis tell the story. The first chapters are enough for now.
- The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedomAnd how Palestinians tell it. Notice where the two stories meet.
- Hard questions, honest answersThe questions everyone asks, with answers and sources.
The story in order
For anyone who wants to see how one thing led to another, from 1949 to today.
- Timeline of the peace processThe whole line at a glance, before the details.
- The 1949 Armistice AgreementsThe war ends with armistice lines, not with peace.
- UN Security Council Resolution 242After 1967: the “land for peace” formula, and the argument over every word of it.
- Sadat's Visit to JerusalemThe visit that changed what was thought possible.
- Egypt–Israel Peace TreatyThe first peace treaty, and the price both sides paid.
- The Madrid ConferenceEveryone in the same room for the first time.
- Oslo I – the Declaration of PrinciplesMutual recognition and an interim agreement. What was promised and what was not.
- Oslo: the breakthrough, and what went wrong on the wayThe 1993 breakthrough, and why it went wrong on the way to a permanent settlement.
- Israel–Jordan Peace TreatyThe second peace treaty.
- The Camp David Summit, 2000The attempt at a final settlement, and why each side explains its failure differently.
- Tried, and tried again: the attempts that paved the roadThe attempts that did not ripen, and why they were steps on the road too.
- Arab Peace InitiativeThe Arab world’s offer, still on the table.
- The Abraham Accords – the framework declarationNormalisation with states that never fought Israel, and what it did not solve.
- The Gaza ceasefire and the US 20-point planWhere things stand now.
Hearing both sides
For anyone who knows one story well and is willing to read the other.
- Israel and the Jewish people: roots, memory and choosing lifeThe Israeli story, including what it tends to leave out.
- The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedomThe Palestinian story, including what it tends to leave out.
- Hard questions, honest answersTen questions Israelis ask and ten that Palestinians and Arabs ask. Read the other side’s first.
- Violence, terror and the damage to peaceOne standard for harm to civilians, whoever commits it.
- Israelis and Palestinians: options for the futureWhat is proposed for the future, and what each side says about each proposal.
I don’t believe it’s possible
For the sceptical, the disappointed and the angry. Nobody asks you to be convinced, only to check.
- Hard questions, honest answersStart with the hard questions, not the slogans.
- Violence, terror and the damage to peaceWhat violence did to every attempt at an agreement.
- Egypt–Israel Peace TreatyA treaty people said would not last, and has lasted since 1979.
- It has happened before: conflicts that became peaceSix conflicts elsewhere that looked unsolvable.
- Tried, and tried again: the attempts that paved the roadPeace with Egypt took eight years of attempts. This is what that looks like up close.
- How to check us: a source in five stepsAnd don’t take our word for it: this is how to check any claim on the site.
I teach or lead a group
For teachers, educators and youth leaders who want to bring the subject to a class or group.
- For teachers and youth leadersLesson units, discussion questions and a letter to parents.
- Start here: peace in five minutesThe page you can give pupils before the first lesson.
- GlossaryThe words each side uses, and what each one means.
- How to check us: a source in five stepsA ready exercise: checking a source in five steps.
- Hard questions, honest answersThe questions that will come up in class anyway.
- What you can doWhat pupils can do after the lesson.
And what now?
For anyone who knows the past and wants to think about what can be done from here.
- Israelis and Palestinians: options for the futureThe plans on the table, side by side.
- Peace with a neighbour, normalization with a distant state: what is the difference?What has already been tried, and what the comparison teaches.
- And what does the world want?What the world says, and what it is prepared to do.
- What you can doOrganisations, and five things you can do alone this week.
While you follow a path, a small bar at the bottom of the screen shows the next stop. It stores nothing about you: your place on the path is written in the page address only.