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…nflict and the minimum terms we could accept in order to end it. At issue were rival claims on security, final borders, Israeli settlements, Palestinian refugees, and the future of ancient city of Jerusalem. None of these could be resolved without painful, and politically perilou...

OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi THE SEARCH FOR PEACE IN THE ARAB–ISRAELI CONFLICT OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi The Search for Peace in the Arab–Israeli Conflict A Compendium of Documents and Analysis Edited b...

 20 April, 2011 Article 1. The Cairo Review of Global Affairs The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Now William B. Quandt Article 2. Foreign Policy The United States' heavy-handed efforts to help Israel at the U.N. Colum Lynch Article 3. The Washington Post Time to up the ante on Eg...

…e, he spoke of the importance of diplomacy. I suspect he'll go to extreme lengths to avoid war, and won't greenlight an Israeli attack either until the arc of diplomacy has run its course. And then Obama would likely act only if the mullahs push the envelope by accelerating their...

…tuous Arab Spring, which has replaced a pair of U.S.-allied dictatorships with elected Islamist governments. Within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, much has changed since the direct peace talks Obama inaugurated in September 2010 collapsed within weeks. Israel's recent battle w...

…parked an international incident: On Aug. 18, gunmen carried out a string of attacks in southern Israel that left eight Israelis dead. The Israeli government, which claimed that the attackers were militants from the Gaza Strip who had crossed into Israel through the porous Sinai...

…he UN Security Council plus Germany) or bilateral negotiations; a military strike, as threatened by President Obama and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and an explicit or implicit shift to containment, indicating that Washington would be prepared to coexist with a nucl...

…he UN Security Council plus Germany) or bilateral negotiations; a military strike, as threatened by President Obama and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and an explicit or implicit shift to containment, indicating that Washington would be prepared to coexist with a nucl...

/ BARAK / 17 the deal was due to begin in early November, but he kept putting off a vote in the cabinet. When the vote came, on November 11, Bibi squeaked through by a margin of 8 to 4, but with five abstentions. That meant less than half of his ministers had voted for it. The...

…the Palestinian Authority. “Without that, our goal is membership in the United Nations General Assembly in September.” Israeli, Palestinian and Western officials interviewed on the current impasse, most of them requesting anonymity, expressed an unusual degree of pessimism about...

…has fashioned an about the Middle unexpected thriller out of the brave East peace process? and inspired Palestinian and Israeli It’s hardly a subject negotiators who came together in to get the pulse a remote Norwegian house to put racing. And yet, aside decades of hostility and...

…ingle word of reproach. In fact, he called Rabin’s government “illegitimate”, because it relied in part on the votes of Israeli Arab Knesset members. The day of the vote, the mob descended on the Knesset. Rabin had called a government meeting beforehand. When I got there, the cr...

… agreement, and by the ever-worsening Palestinian violence. Shlomo Ben-Ami put it best, saying that in the view of most Israelis, “Arafat’s response to Camp David was not peace, it was an intifada.” By the second part of November, there were five separate motions of no- confiden...

…ingle word of reproach. In fact, he called Rabin’s government “illegitimate”, because it relied in part on the votes of Israeli Arab Knesset members. The day of the vote, the mob descended on the Knesset. Rabin had called a government meeting beforehand. When I got there, the cr...

/ BARAK / 89 question of Jerusalem — than any Israeli leader in the search for peace. Even before I'd left for Camp David, the defections from our coalition meant we’d been left with only 42 seats in the Knesset, nineteen short of a majority. Amid the first, sketchy media report...