Main Points of Mid East Peace Plan

Phase one
Begins with statements by both sides renouncing violence and affirming the right of the other side to a state.

Palestinians halt violence, make efforts to disarm violent radicals and stop them from carrying out terror attacks, restructure security services and reform their administration in preparation for statehood. Israel and the Palestinians resume security coordination.

Israel stops operations that harm Palestinian civilians, takes steps to normalize Palestinian life, gradually withdraws forces from Palestinian cities and towns back to pre-violence lines as security and cooperation increases. Israel dismantles settlement outposts established in recent years and freezes all settlement construction in the West Bank and Gaza.

Phase two
Begins when the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia agree that both sides have fulfilled the commitments in Phase One.

It includes the option of a Palestinian state with “provisional borders and attributes of sovereignty.” It’s conditional on:

--A new Palestinian constitution and elections.

--An international conference on economic assistance and negotiations to set up a provisional state with “maximum territorial contiguity.”

--Arab nations restoring relations with Israel to pre-fighting level.

Phase three
International conference oversees negotiations on “final status” issues: borders, Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees and Jewish settlements -- with a treaty by 2005 leading to comprehensive peace between Israel and the Arab world.

Key disagreements
*Israel does not want to dismantle all of the roughly 100 settlement outposts, saying some of them are legal. The Palestinians -- and the road map -- say all of them must go.

*The Palestinians seek to persuade Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militant groups to stop terror attacks. Israel says they must be disarmed and is demanding arrests. The road map calls for “sustained, targeted and effective operations against all those engaged in terror and dismantlement of terrorist capabilities and infrastructure.”

*Israel wants the Palestinians to renounce claims to a “right of return” for refugees, at least by recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a “Jewish state.” The Palestinians refuse. The road map calls only for a statement on “Israel’s right to exist in peace and security.”

*Israel says other measures expected of it -- such as the politically difficult freeze on settlements -- should come after a crackdown on militants. The Palestinians say all steps should be concurrent. The road map says “the parties are expected to perform their obligations in parallel, unless otherwise indicated.”