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Title: The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy by Neal Kozodoy, Mark Helprin ISBN: 1-893554-43-0 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exposes the deceit and the real agenda behind the talking...
Comment: The dictionary defines autopsy as 'an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine the cause of death'.
Quite appropriate therefore that this book is titled an autopsy of the Mid-East Peace Process. Few in the Mid-East or the international arena now give credence to the evaluation that the 'peace process' is still functional.
This book is of considerable value in that it examines how the so-called 'peace process' actually died. This is not a 'play on words' but an actual investigation into what went wrong and why.
The basic premise for peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian/Arab world was allegedly 'land for peace'. This book scrutinizes how this principle was actually just a facade. The most far reaching concessions ever offered by any Israeli leader only resulting in the Palestinian 'intifadas' that are analysed here and which 'grace' our television screens almost on a daily basis.
The book scrutinises the previously unheard of offers by former Israeli PM Ehud Barak in relation to ceding some 98% of the 'West Bank' and Gaza towards a Palestinian state, a deal on 'settlements' and 'refugees' plus an agreement to 'share' Jerusalem. Investigated too are the failure of Yasser Arafat & the Palestinian Authority to accept this as even a basis for negotiation, their violation of previous agreements and the reneging of their promise to resolve all disagreements through negotiations.
The authors themselves show that even despite agreed Israeli withdrawals peace was not forthcoming, the PLO not even amending it's Covenant calling for the destruction of the Jewish state.
The book outlines a statement through Jordanian Television by Yasser Arafat on the very same day as he appeared in 1993 on the White House lawn with Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Bill Clinton and co., shaking hands and making his promises of peace.
The book (on page 22) declares that Arafat, in his public statement in Arabic on Jordan Television, stated that he had no intent to halt terrorism, or any peaceful co-existence with Israel. Instead he described the agreement, in fact the whole 'peace-process', was in the context of the '1974 plan', known by the whole Arab world as the 'plan of phases' for the destruction of Israel.
Perhaps this should have opened everyone's eyes to the real intent and agenda behind the scenes, but clearly not so.
This book provides a number of essays by very learned people including Efraim Karsh, David Bar-Ilan, Dore Gold, Daniel Pipes and others, that investigate how Arafat duped the whole world into believing that he was pursuant of a peaceful co-existence with the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
This book also explores the regional & international consequences of the failure of the Mid-East 'peace-process' in light of September 11th. This becomes even more relevant in few of recent developments appertaining to Iraq. Also explored and discussed are the future, potential conventional and nuclear conflicts between Israel and the Arab world, also weighed against the possible existence of a Palestinian 'state' in Israel's very heartland.
A very illuminating, thought-provoking read and a handy reference book for the days ahead which we must all watch with interest.
Rating: 5
Summary: A grim analysis of the clashes and bloodshed
Comment: Compiled and edited by Neal Kozodoy and enhanced with an "afterword" by Mark Helprin, The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy is a grim analysis of the clashes and bloodshed between Israelis and the Palestinians. The contributions include Israel's New Polyannas (David bar-Illan); The Story Behind the Handshake (Yigal Carmon); Land for No Peace (Douglas J. Feith); Where is the Peace Process Going? (Dore Gold); In Arafat's Kingdom (Nadav Haetzni); When the Palestinian Army Invades (Yuval Steinitz); Israel's moment of Truth (Daniel Pipes); Intifada II: Death of an Illusion? (Norman Podhoretz); The Journalists and the Palestinians (Fiamma Nirenstein); On the "Right of Return" (Efraim Karsh). As immediately relevant as today's newspaper headlines, The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy is a highly recommended, contribution to Mideast Studies and Palestinian Studies reference collections and reading lists.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good book, but one major flaw
Comment: I like this book, and I'm in favor of Israel in this conflict. However, the problem with this book is simple: it doesn't even attempt to present two sides to the story. It is so full of sniveling and whining against the Palestinians that it grates on your nerves after 30 pages. It doesn't present one single argument in the Palestinians' favor. It's just whining, whining, whining from Israelis, who fail to see that their actions may have some role in the current mess we're in.
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Title: Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes ISBN: 0393052044 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 12 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002 by Charles Enderlin, Susan Fairfield ISBN: 1590510607 Publisher: Other Press, LLC Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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