The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process : A Personal Insider's Account

• Autore: Hirschfeld Yair
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 pages)
• Disciplina: 956.94053
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introductory Note -- Contents -- 1 October 7, 2023: The Horror, Causes, Impact, and Working on the Way Forward -- The Horror -- The Causes of the War -- The Impact of the War -- The Need for Humanitarian Relief as Against the Logic of Conflict and War -- The Emerging Global Reality -- The Emerging Regional Reality -- Working on the Way Forward -- Preparing for the Political Struggle in Israel on the Day After -- The Religiously Legitimized Peace Approach -- Promoting Reconstruction, Economic Growth, Interdependence, and Cooperation -- The Security-Based Approach -- The Need to Define Milestones Starting with the Conclusion of a Long-Term Ceasefire -- 2 Growing up in Vienna (1949-1967) -- First Experiences in Vienna -- Stories from My Grandparents -- Growing Up with the "Forces of Light" in Vienna -- My Emerging Convictions -- 3 Experiencing the Unfolding of the Peace Process (1967-1990) -- My Experiences During and Shortly After the Six-Day War -- Making Aliya and Studying in Israel -- A Complicated Chess Game After the Six-Day War -- The Yom Kippur War: A Decisive Formative Experience -- The Foundations of Peace in the Camp David Accords -- Iran and the Beginning of a Complex Relationship with Chancellor Kreisky -- First Experiences in Egypt -- The Middle East Policy of the Socialist International -- Kreisky Pursues My Policy Suggestion -- The Suggested Socialist International Peace-Building Initiative -- Joining Yossi Beilin's Group "Mashov" -- Peres' Early Proposals Are Rejected -- The Americans Reshuffle the Cards -- Close Bonds with Faisal el-Husseini and Hanan Ashrawi -- The Madrid Conference -- 4 From the Madrid Conference to the Conclusion of Oslo -- The Importance of Earned Trust -- Rabin Becomes Israel's Prime Minister -- Track-Two Negotiations Start in Norway -- Hoping for a US Shuttle Diplomacy. ; Rabin Takes Control of the Renewal of Negotiations in Washington and Oslo -- The Official Back-Channel Negotiations Get Underway -- Each Player Had Their Role -- 5 The Oslo Process of Trial and Error Unfolds -- An Awkward Beginning to the Tough Ride Ahead -- The Continuing Riddle of Arafat -- The Challenges Ahead -- The Battle Against Terror is Lost -- Before Arafat's Return to the Territories -- Arafat's Return to Gaza -- The Increasing Threat of Jewish Militant Radicalism -- The Failure of Palestinian State-Building Efforts -- Learning to Navigate Uncharted Territory -- Finalizing a Blueprint for a Permanent Status Agreement -- Netanyahu Continues the Oslo Process with Our Support -- Preparing an Agreement on Jerusalem, Refugees, and Security -- Jerusalem -- Refugees -- Security -- Initiating a Wide Range of People-to-People Activities -- Warning Signs -- The Danger of Ambiguity -- Security Warnings -- 6 From Hope Under Netanyahu to Disaster Under Ehud Barak -- Adapting the Israeli Approach to Arafat's Strategic Behavior -- Preparing a Code of Conduct -- Supporting Palestinian Economic Growth -- Preparing Trilateral Security Understandings -- Preparing People-To-People (P2P) and Government-To-Government (G2G) Cooperation -- ECF Influence in Barak's Peace Administration Proved Futile -- Ehud Barak's Initial Policy Approach -- The Several Delusions of Barak's Approach to Negotiating -- The Delusion of an Unprepared Summit -- The Delusion of Negotiating like in the Persian Bazar -- The Delusion of Rejecting "Backward Negotiations" -- The Delusion of Playing in Domestic Palestinian Politics -- The Delusion that the Substance of the Offer of "All or Nothing" Could NOT be Rejected and There Would be No Need for "Plan B" -- My Ignored Warnings -- Efforts to Prevent Disaster -- The Salvage Attempt -- The Need and Weakness of Track-Two Policy Planning. ; 7 The Need to Rethink Possible Action -- The Three Most Important Building Blocks for a Peace Policy Fall Apart -- The Breakdown of the Shared Israeli-Palestinian Narrative for Peace-Seeking -- The US Understanding of and Support for Israeli-Peace Making Falters -- The Rethinking Process Got Underway -- Seeking Ways and Means to Break the Vicious Circle of Crises in a Protracted Conflict -- Putnam's Double Game Theory -- Beilin and I Pursue Different Approaches -- 8 Maintaining the Struggle for a Two-State Solution Under Sharon and Olmert (2001-2009) -- Rebuilding Jewish-Arab Relations at Home to Foster Close Working Relationship with Sharon's Government -- Violence Replaces Diplomacy -- Testing the Option of Internationalizing Security -- Seeking Economic Relief and Development for the Palestinian Territories -- Hoping to Recreate a Political Horizon -- Emerging Threats from the Region -- The Second Phase: Sharon's Unilateral Disengagement Policy -- Attempting to Coordinate Israeli-Palestinian National Interests -- The Economy -- Security -- Creating a Political Horizon-Getting Back to Roadmap Implementation -- The Mistakes that Strengthened the Most Radical Elements in the Settlement Community -- Postscript: Lessons Learned Show the Value of Multilateral-Coordinated Unilateral Move -- Olmert's Government, 2006-2009 -- The Rise and Fall of the Agha-Khalidi-Brodet-Hirschfeld Negotiating Channel -- PM Olmert's Peace Proposal is Rejected -- Understanding What Would Be Needed to "Get Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations to the 'Take Off-Point'" -- The Emerging Concept -- Supportive Action Gets Underway -- The Lasting Legacy of Bush and Olmert: Understanding the Importance of the Phased Roadmap Approach -- 9 The Netanyahu-Obama Years: 2009-2017 -- The Growing Gap of Perceptions -- A Challenging Start: Olmert's Failed Peace Effort, Gaza, and Iran. ; First Disappointments -- Iran-My Concerns Turn into Substantial Worries -- Turkey -- Egypt and Gaza: Spreading Destabilization -- Seeking to Understand and Overcome the Gap of Interests and Perceptions -- Our Cautious Recommendations Ignored -- Hoping for a Religious-Led Peace: Opportunities and Threats -- The Opportunity: Negotiating Non-Negotiable God-Ordained Commands -- The Threat: Inflaming Religious Militant Fanaticism Through Political Rhetoric -- Addressing Joshua A. Cohen's "Misconclusion" -- 10 Seeking a Way Forward: Brainstorming in Norway, and the Abraham Accords (2017-2021) -- The Ten Point (Non)-Paper -- The Very Real Reactions to the Non-paper -- Assembling a New Israeli Working Group -- "Joint Declaration on Mutual Recognition and Agreed Arrangements for a Return to Negotiations -- "Letter to the Quartet -- From Working Group to Workshops -- Various Leadership Shows Interest in an "Academic Exercise" -- Specific Reactions from the Israeli and Palestinian Leadership -- The Nine-Point Paper -- Abu Ala' Takes Over -- The Abraham Accords Are Signed: Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, and Casablanca Begin the Waltz -- 11 Netanyahu's Uphill and Downhill Road to Disaster -- The Folly and the Seeming Success of Netanyahu's Conflict Management Strategy -- Hoping for a US-Saudi Arabia-Israel-(Palestinian) Peace Initiative -- Netanyahu's Strategy -- The Strategy of the EU Peace Envoy -- Netanyahu's March of Downhill Folly -- Taking the Path to Disaster -- 12 My Suggested Conclusions for Future Peace Work -- My Take on the Iran-Hamas-Hisbollah-Jihadist-Houti-Genocidal Challenge Against Israel and the Jewish People -- Addressing Past and Future Conceptual Issues -- My Take on Palestinian Rejectionism -- My Take on Israel's Strategy and Policies Towards Regional Powers -- My Take on the Role of the USA, European Powers and Russia. ; My Take on Forthcoming Security Challenges -- My Take on People-To-People Activities -- My Take on What Happens if All This Does not Succeed -- Timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Peace-Seeking Process -- The Historical Development -- The Unfolding of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations 1979-2000 -- Reassessment: Seeking a Peace-Building Formula in a Complex World -- Glossary -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
• ISBN: 9783031432859
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910855378603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II