In Pursuit Of Peace In Israel And Palestine

Author : Gershon Baskin
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826504067

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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine by Gershon Baskin Pdf

Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz in Israel, where he announced to his parents that he had decided to make aliya, emigrate to Israel. They persuaded him to return to study at NYU, after which he finally emigrated under the auspices of Interns for Peace. In Israel he spent a pivotal two years living with Arabs in the village of Kufr Qara. Despite the atmosphere of fear, Baskin found he could talk with both Jews and Palestinians, and that very few others were engaged in efforts at mutual understanding. At his initiative, the Ministry of Education and the office of right-wing prime minister Menachem Begin created the Institute for Education for Jewish-Arab Coexistence with Baskin himself as director. Eight years later he founded and codirected the only joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think-and-do tank in the world, the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information. For decades he continued to cross borders, often with a kaffiyeh (Arab headdress) on his dashboard to protect his car in Palestinian neighborhoods. Airport passport control became Kafkaesque as Israeli agents routinely identified him as a security threat. During the many cycles of peace negotiations, Baskin has served both as an outside agitator for peace and as an advisor on the inside of secret talks—for example, during the prime ministership of Yitzhak Rabin and during the initiative led by Secretary of State John Kerry. Baskin ends the book with his own proposal, which includes establishing a peace education program and cabinet-level Ministries of Peace in both countries, in order to foster a culture of peace.

Author : Mordechai Bar-On
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1878379534

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In Pursuit of Peace by Mordechai Bar-On Pdf

When the Israeli prime minister and the PLO chairman shook hands on the White House lawn in 1993, Israeli peace activists had good reason to celebrate this major step on the long road to peace.This book tells the story of the Israeli peace movement and the role it played in that pursuit of peace. It is an eloquent, fascinating account of a remarkably diverse and determined cast of activists: from war-weary soldiers to hard-headed politicians, careful scholars to impassioned artists.Drawing on his experience in the peace movement, Bar-On provides intimate portraits of groups like Peace Now, Yesh Gvul, and the Women in Black, he also provides a sweeping historical synthesis of the course of the Israeli-Arab conflict, especially between 1967 and 1993.

Author : Gershon Baskin
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826521835

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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine by Gershon Baskin Pdf

Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz in Israel, where he announced to his parents that he had decided to make aliya, emigrate to Israel. They persuaded him to return to study at NYU, after which he finally emigrated under the auspices of Interns for Peace. In Israel he spent a pivotal two years living with Arabs in the village of Kufr Qara. Despite the atmosphere of fear, Baskin found he could talk with both Jews and Palestinians, and that very few others were engaged in efforts at mutual understanding. At his initiative, the Ministry of Education and the office of right-wing prime minister Menachem Begin created the Institute for Education for Jewish-Arab Coexistence with Baskin himself as director. Eight years later he founded and codirected the only joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think-and-do tank in the world, the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information. For decades he continued to cross borders, often with a kaffiyeh (Arab headdress) on his dashboard to protect his car in Palestinian neighborhoods. Airport passport control became Kafkaesque as Israeli agents routinely identified him as a security threat. During the many cycles of peace negotiations, Baskin has served both as an outside agitator for peace and as an advisor on the inside of secret talks—for example, during the prime ministership of Yitzhak Rabin and during the initiative led by Secretary of State John Kerry. Baskin ends the book with his own proposal, which includes establishing a peace education program and cabinet-level Ministries of Peace in both countries, in order to foster a culture of peace.

Author : D. Waxman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403983473

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The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity by D. Waxman Pdf

This book offers a theoretically-informed analysis of the way in which Israeli national identity has shaped Israel's foreign policy. By linking domestic identity politics to Israeli foreign policy, it reveals how a crisis of Israeli identity inflamed the debate in Israel over the Oslo peace process.

Author : King Of Jordan Abdullah Ii,Abdullah II (King of Jordan)
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141048796

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Our Last Best Chance by King Of Jordan Abdullah Ii,Abdullah II (King of Jordan) Pdf

A dying King Hussein of Jordan shocked the world when he chose his son rather than his brother to be the next King of Jordan. In this candid memoir, King Abdullah II tackles the two toughest issues he faces: how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff and how to become an intermediary between the United States and the Arab world.

Author : Alan Dershowitz
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118040607

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The Case for Peace by Alan Dershowitz Pdf

In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine–and explains how to move around them and push the process forward. From the division of Jerusalem and Israeli counterterrorism measures to the security fence and the Iranian nuclear threat, his analyses are clear-headed, well-argued, and sure to be controversial. According to Dershowitz, achieving a lasting peace will require more than tough-minded negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. In academia, Europe, the UN, and the Arab world, Israel-bashing and anti-Semitism have reached new heights, despite the recent Israeli-Palestinian movement toward peace. Surveying this outpouring of vilification, Dershowitz deconstructs the smear tactics used by Israel-haters and shows how this kind of anti-Israel McCarthyism is aimed at scuttling any real chance of peace.

Author : Caroline Glick
Publisher : Crown Forum
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780385348065

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The Israeli Solution by Caroline Glick Pdf

A landmark manifesto issuing a bold call for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. The reigning consensus in elite and academic circles is that the United States must seek to resolve the Palestinians' conflict with Israel by implementing the so-called two-state solution. Establishing a Palestinian state, so the thinking goes, would be a panacea for all the region’s ills. In a time of partisan gridlock, the two-state solution stands out for its ability to attract supporters from both sides of America's ideological divide. But the great irony is that it is one of the most irrational and failed policies the United States has ever adopted. Between 1970 and 2013, the United States presented nine different peace plans for Israel and the Palestinians, and for the past twenty years, the two state solution has been the centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy. But despite this laser focus, American efforts to implement a two-state peace deal have failed—and with each new attempt, the Middle East has become less stable, more violent, more radicalized, and more inimical to democratic values and interests. In The Israeli Solution, Caroline Glick, senior contributing editor to the Jerusalem Post, examines the history and misconceptions behind the two-state policy, most notably: - The huge errors made in counting the actual numbers of Jews and Arabs in the region. The 1997 Palestinian Census, upon which most two-state policy is based, wildly exaggerated the numbers of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. - Neglect of the long history of Palestinian anti-Semitism, refusal to negotiate in good faith, terrorism, and denial of Israel’s right to exist. - Disregard for Israel’s stronger claims to territorial sovereignty under international law, as well as the long history of Jewish presence in the region. - Indifference to polling data that shows the Palestinian people admire Israeli society and governance. Despite a half-century of domestic and international terrorism, anti-semitism, and military attacks from regional neighbors who reject its right to exist, Israel has thrived as the Middle East’s lone democracy. After a century spent chasing a two-state policy that hasn’t brought the Israelis and Palestinians any closer to peace, The Israeli Solution offers an alternative path to stability in the Middle East based on Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

Author : Richard A. Falk
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0745399754

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Palestine's Horizon by Richard A. Falk Pdf

The former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine brings his life's work together to discuss how the region can find peace

Author : Yossi Beilin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0297643169

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Touching Peace by Yossi Beilin Pdf

The initiator of the Oslo peace process reveals the events that led to the agreement, and presents his vision for the future peace of the Middle East.

Author : Robert L. Rothstein,Moshe Maʻoz,Khalīl Shiqāqī
Publisher : Peace Politics in the Middle E
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1845190580

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The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process by Robert L. Rothstein,Moshe Maʻoz,Khalīl Shiqāqī Pdf

A full length assessment of what went wrong with the Oslo peace process -- a process that began in euphoria and degenerated into disaster.

Author : D. Waxman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349535281

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The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity by D. Waxman Pdf

This book offers a theoretically-informed analysis of the way in which Israeli national identity has shaped Israel's foreign policy. By linking domestic identity politics to Israeli foreign policy, it reveals how a crisis of Israeli identity inflamed the debate in Israel over the Oslo peace process.

Author : Everett Mendelsohn,American Friends Service Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610498210

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A Compassionate Peace by Everett Mendelsohn,American Friends Service Committee Pdf

Author : Yoram Meital
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1588263622

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Peace in Tatters by Yoram Meital Pdf

Peace in Tatters was born in a set of questions with which the author, an Israeli scholar, has struggled for some years: What went wrong in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before the July 2000 Camp David summit and during the crucial negotiations? How have the dominant narratives about the collapse of the peace process been crafted? Does the ongoing crisis mark the end of the road for the idea that the conflict can be settled on the basis of a two-state solution, with Palestinians and Israelis living as peaceful neighbors? Yoram Meital offers a powerful explanation of how and why the peace process developed, evolved, and ultimately fell apart.Though rich in historical context, Peace in Tatters focuses primarily on the critical years of 2000-2004. Meital examines the major developments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the evolving public-political discourse in Israeli and Palestinian societies, and, unflinchingly, U.S. policy in the Middle East. He also explores the dramatic repercussions of the aborted political process for Israelis and Palestinians, and for their opinions about the failure of the negotiations and the eruption of violence. His clear-sighted appraisal will help readers not only to understand what went wrong, but also to see present events in an essentially different way.Yoram Meital is senior lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies and chair of the Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy at Ben-Gurion University. His previous publications in English include Egypt?s Struggle for Peace: Continuity and Change, 1967-1977.Contents: Introduction. The Goal: An End to Conflict. From War to Peace. Oslo: The ?Peace? ?Process.? Barak?s Blueprint and Its Failure. The Great Charade. Camp David: The Second Time Around. The Collapse of Peace. The al-Aqsa Intifada. The ?No-Partner? Approach. September 11 and the Middle East. The Arab Peace Initiative. Bush?s Vision and the War on Terror. Roadmap to Nowhere. High Fences Make Good Neighbors? Appendixes: Chronology of Key Events, 1947-2005; The Road Map; Ariel Sharon?s Herzaliya Statement.

Author : Khaled Elgindy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 0815731558

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Blind Spot by Khaled Elgindy Pdf

A critical examination of the history of US-Palestinian relations The United States has invested billions of dollars and countless diplomatic hours in the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace and a two-state solution. Yet American attempts to broker an end to the conflict have repeatedly come up short. At the center of these failures lay two critical factors: Israeli power and Palestinian politics. While both Israelis and Palestinians undoubtedly share much of the blame, one also cannot escape the role of the United States, as the sole mediator in the process, in these repeated failures. American peacemaking efforts ultimately ran aground as a result of Washington's unwillingness to confront Israel's ever-deepening occupation or to come to grips with the realities of internal Palestinian politics. In particular, the book looks at the interplay between the U.S.-led peace process and internal Palestinian politics--namely, how a badly flawed peace process helped to weaken Palestinian leaders and institutions and how an increasingly dysfunctional Palestinian leadership, in turn, hindered prospects for a diplomatic resolution. Thus, while the peace process was not necessarily doomed to fail, Washington's management of the process, with its built-in blind spot to Israeli power and Palestinian politics, made failure far more likely than a negotiated breakthrough. Shaped by the pressures of American domestic politics and the special relationship with Israel, Washington's distinctive "blind spot" to Israeli power and Palestinian politics has deep historical roots, dating back to the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate. The size of the blind spot has varied over the years and from one administration to another, but it is always present.

Author : Severine Autesserre
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197530375

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The Frontlines of Peace by Severine Autesserre Pdf

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse. But what strategies have worked to build lasting peace in conflict zones, particularly for ordinary citizens on the ground? And why should other ordinary citizens, thousands of miles away, care? In The Frontlines of Peace, Severine Autesserre, award-winning researcher and peacebuilder, examines the well-intentioned but inherently flawed peace industry. With examples drawn from across the globe, she reveals that peace can grow in the most unlikely circumstances. Contrary to what most politicians preach, building peace doesn't require billions in aid or massive international interventions. Real, lasting peace requires giving power to local citizens. The Frontlines of Peace tells the stories of the ordinary yet extraordinary individuals and organizations that are confronting violence in their communities effectively. One thing is clear: successful examples of peacebuilding around the world, in countries at war or at peace, have involved innovative grassroots initiatives led by local people, at times supported by foreigners, often employing methods shunned by the international elite. By narrating success stories of this kind, Autesserre shows the radical changes we must take in our approach if we hope to build lasting peace around us--whether we live in Congo, the United States, or elsewhere.