LEADER 04501nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910455526303321 005 20211001021836.0 010 $a1-4008-0643-7 010 $a1-4008-2265-3 010 $a1-282-75348-7 010 $a9786612753480 010 $a1-4008-1307-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822652 035 $a(CKB)111056486505708 035 $a(EBL)668956 035 $a(OCoLC)51453526 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000433901 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12210318 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000433901 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10396510 035 $a(PQKB)11227721 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000114875 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11887344 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114875 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10125757 035 $a(PQKB)11549100 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668956 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36042 035 $a(DE-B1597)446282 035 $a(OCoLC)979757313 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822652 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668956 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035905 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275348 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486505708 100 $a19980212d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe brink of peace$b[electronic resource] $ethe Israeli-Syrian negotiations /$fItamar Rabinovich 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-01023-4 311 0 $a0-691-05868-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-271) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tOne. Trying to Recapture Yesterday's Shadow --$tTwo. Israel and Syria, Rabin and Asad --$tThree. First Cracks in the Ice --$tFour. The Wing Beats of History --$tFive. Between Amman and Damascus --$tSix. The Security Dialogue --$tSeven. Bitter Harvest at the Wye Plantation --$tConclusion --$tPostscript --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aA major casualty of the assassin's bullet that struck down Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was a prospective peace accord between Syria and Israel. For the first time, a negotiator who had unique access to Rabin, as well as detailed knowledge of Syrian history and politics, tells the inside story of the failed negotiations. His account provides a key to understanding not only U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East but also the larger Arab-Israeli peace process. During the period from 1992 to 1996, Itamar Rabinovich was Israel's ambassador to Washington, and the chief negotiator with Syria. In this book, he looks back at the course of negotiations, terms of which were known to a surprisingly small group of American, Israeli, and Syrian officials. After Benjamin Netanyahu's election as Israel's prime minister in May 1996, a controversy developed. Even with Netanyahu's change of policy and harder line toward Damascus, Syria began claiming that both Rabin and his successor Peres had pledged full withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Rabinovich takes the reader through the maze of diplomatic subtleties to explain the differences between hypothetical discussion and actual commitment. "To the students of past history and contemporary politics," he writes, "nothing is more beguiling than the myriad threads that run across the invisible line which separates the two." The threads of this story include details of Rabin's negotiations and their impact through two subsequent Israeli administrations in less than a year, the American and Egyptian roles, and the ongoing debate between Syria and Israel on the factual and legal bases for resuming talks. The author portrays all sides and participants with remarkable flair and empathy, as only a privileged player in the events could do. In any assessment of future negotiations in the Middle East, Itamar Rabinovich's book will prove indispensable. 606 $aArab-Israeli conflict$y1993-$xPeace 607 $aIsrael$xForeign relations$zSyria 607 $aSyria$xForeign relations$zIsrael 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArab-Israeli conflict$xPeace. 676 $a327.56940569 700 $aRabinovich$b Itamar$f1942-$0538277 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455526303321 996 $aThe brink of peace$92478886 997 $aUNINA