Author: William Pierce Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Gottfried Hutter
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 148087244X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Only mutual compassion can bring reconciliation and lasting peace to the Middle East. This conflict is about far more than just land. The honor of Muslims was grossly violated when Israel was implanted next to one of the holiest sites of Islam, al Haram ash Sharif in Jerusalem – which, in turn, occupies the site of the former Jewish Temple. For thirteen hundred years Jews had been able to live mostly in peace in the Muslim world, because they subordinated themselves under the rule of Islam. They could even attain high positions serving Caliphs. With a State of their own this was no longer an option. Under such changed conditions, how could there be an honorable peace? Only if Muslims recollect Surat 5:48 in the holy Koran, which commands a competition in virtue among the religions of the book. Jews can contribute by showing awareness of how shocking their sudden takeover of part of the land must have felt for the community of all Muslims, and concurrently by pleading for understanding of the deadly threat that left Jewish survivors no choice when, in 1947, the UN declared the partition of Palestine. Even more important, the very name “Israel” itself sprang up in the solution of an archetypal biblical conflict between brothers, one pregnant with meaning for today. Christians too have their share. They must contribute by helping restore one of the most fundamental values of all three religions descending from Abraham, namely peace.

Author: Jesse C. Newman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781449085162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Newman has taken a subject that has spanned decades and caused grave problems to all concerned, namely the Middle East, and offers a unique solution to the conflict there. First, he gives us a comprehensive view of the entire area; the historical and the political background of the Middle East, including the negative part that Britain's colonial past played in creating the conflict we have today. Then he shows how the situation has been exacerbated by those who stand to profit from its continuation. By including his unpublished text, verbatim, from 1994, he successfully demonstrates how little has changed in the intervening years. Then he offers a vision of how things could be, of how they ought to be for all concerned. Newman notes how young the population of the Palestinians is, notes the prevalence and ubiquity of the information age, and claims that prosperity and a future for Palestinians will be as important to them as it is to us. He further points out that without security, prosperity is a vain hope. Security for the whole area is what is needed. Last, he offers a daring and unique way to get there. It would provide the security, for both sides, needed to have a lasting peace in the Middle East.

Author: Benjamin Netanyahu
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446564761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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This examination of the Middle East's troubled history traces the origins, development and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West. It argues that peace with the Palestinians will leave Israel vulnerable to Iraq and Iran.

Author: Reda M. Al Btoush
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Oslo Accords between the Palestinians and Israelis of 1993 marked a watershed in the annals of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The claims of competing nationalisms over the same territory which lay at the heart of the conflict gave way to a fresh and welcome pattern of accommodation. By recognizing each other and accepting to a degree the right to exist on national territories, a way was opened for a radical transformation in the conduct of regional affairs. Jordan and Israel concluded a Treaty of Peace in 1994. Although this was a momentous achievement reversing the history of violence in the region, it must be viewed within the overall context of the quest for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace for the entire region. The obstacles to peace that are, and have been experienced along the way must be viewed within the same context. There have always been setbacks. But for Israelis and the Arabs alike, there is no viable alternative, the peace process must go on. Peace building must be stepped up. Unfortunately the quest for peace appears to be faltering. The peace process in the Middle East is in deep crisis which seems to manifest no respite. Recent events have brought the process to a grinding halt. To understand the barriers to peace in the region, this paper examines the Palestinian issue including refugees and Jerusalem, examines the history and different aspects of the issue, and develops a set of scenarios that could lead to a just and lasting peace throughout the entire region.

Author: Martine Rothblatt
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595292887
Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Two Stars for Peace makes a compelling case for merging Israel and Palestine into the United States. Dozens of possible objections are addressed using clear logic, historical precedent, and current statistics. This bold new strategy is also shown to be essential to removing the kindling wood of terrorism from Middle East politics. Two Stars for Peace is the natural successor to The Jewish State, Theodore Herzl's hundred-year old booklet that created Zionism. Author Martine Rothblatt persuasively demonstrates that "two-state" solutions, such as the current Middle East Roadmap, are doomed to failure, as is unbridled Zionism. However, there is a "two-star" solution that is consistent with the true spirit of Zionism, as well as with complete satisfaction of Palestinian aspirations. America is asked to rise to one of its greatest challenges by welcoming Two Stars for Peace.

Author: Mary E. Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Martin Indyk
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781416597254
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Making peace in the long-troubled Middle East is likely to be one of the top priorities of the next American president. He will need to take account of the important lessons from past attempts, which are described and analyzed here in a gripping book by a renowned expert who served twice as U.S. ambassador to Israel and as Middle East adviser to President Clinton. Martin Indyk draws on his many years of intense involvement in the region to provide the inside story of the last time the United States employed sustained diplomacy to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and change the behavior of rogue regimes in Iraq and Iran. Innocent Abroad is an insightful history and a poignant memoir. Indyk provides a fascinating examination of the ironic consequences when American naïveté meets Middle Eastern cynicism in the region's political bazaars. He dissects the very different strategies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to explain why they both faced such difficulties remaking the Middle East in their images of a more peaceful or democratic place. He provides new details of the breakdown of the Arab-Israeli peace talks at Camp David, of the CIA's failure to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and of Clinton's attempts to negotiate with Iran's president. Indyk takes us inside the Oval Office, the Situation Room, the palaces of Arab potentates, and the offices of Israeli prime ministers. He draws intimate portraits of the American, Israeli, and Arab leaders he worked with, including Israel's Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon; the PLO's Yasser Arafat; Egypt's Hosni Mubarak; and Syria's Hafez al-Asad. He describes in vivid detail high-level meetings, demonstrating how difficult it is for American presidents to understand the motives and intentions of Middle Eastern leaders and how easy it is for them to miss those rare moments when these leaders are willing to act in ways that can produce breakthroughs to peace. Innocent Abroad is an extraordinarily candid and enthralling account, crucially important in grasping the obstacles that have confounded the efforts of recent presidents. As a new administration takes power, this experienced diplomat distills the lessons of past failures to chart a new way forward that will be required reading.

Author: Rashid Khalidi
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807044768
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in the conflict. In this book, acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi zeroes in on the United States’s role as the purported impartial broker in this failed peace process. Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate how the United States’ involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he investigates is the “Reagan Plan” of 1982, when Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin refused to accept the Reagan administration’s proposal to reframe the Camp David Accords more impartially. The second moment covers the period after the Madrid Peace Conference, from 1991 to 1993, during which negotiations between Israel and Palestine were brokered by the United States until the signing of the secretly negotiated Oslo accords. Finally, Khalidi takes on President Barack Obama’s retreat from plans to insist on halting the settlements in the West Bank. Through in-depth research into and keen analysis of these three moments, as well as his own firsthand experience as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 pre–Oslo negotiations in Washington, DC, Khalidi reveals how the United States and Israel have actively colluded to prevent a Palestinian state and resolve the situation in Israel’s favor. Brokers of Deceit bares the truth about why peace in the Middle East has been impossible to achieve: for decades, US policymakers have masqueraded as unbiased agents working to bring the two sides together, when, in fact, they have been the agents of continuing injustice, effectively preventing the difficult but essential steps needed to achieve peace in the region.

Author: United Nations. Dept. of Public Information
Publisher: [New York] : United Nations
ISBN: 9789211009675
Category : Jewish-Arab relations
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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