Normalisation Agreements and Their Implications on the Palestinian Cause: The Israeli Prespective

This paper explores the Israeli perspective on normalisation as a long-term strategy to transform a colonial project into an accepted regional and international reality. Beginning with the Balfour Declaration, where Palestinians were unnamed and politically erased, the study traces how Israel’s diplomatic evolution has relied on exclusion, denial, and the reframing of peace as legitimacy. From the Camp David and Oslo Accords to the Abraham Accords of 2020, normalisation has functioned less as reconciliation and more as a mechanism for entrenching dominance, converting military control into political acceptance. The analysis highlights how Palestinians have been systematically excluded from every stage of this process, and how that exclusion enabled the normalisation of Israel’s existence as a state detached from the “Question of Palestine” (Said, 1992). Drawing on international law, political economy, and recent developments following the ongoing genocide in Gaza (Amnesty International, 2024), the paper argues that sustainable peace requires a justice-based framework grounded in decolonisation, accountability, and the restoration of Palestinian self-determination.