Submitted by Brodsky on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 20:42
An Interview with Dr. Asher Susser
By: Matt Gordner
Egypt’s failure to broker an effective reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah makes it a strong probability that the January elections will be considered illegitimate by the Palestinian people – that is, if they happen at all. Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) recently declared that the elections will be postponed pending more suitable national conditions. This, of course, renders the possibility of a virtual three state arrangement a viable reality for Israelis and Palestinians in the near future.
For a number of reasons, the speeches delivered this summer by Obama, Netanyahu, and Fayyad promised to bear fruit. Instead, they withered on the vine.
Submitted by Brodsky on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 18:34
Reviewed Book:
Shamir, Shimon, and Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, eds. The Camp David Summit - What Went Wrong?: Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians Analyze the Failure of the Boldest Attempt Ever to Resolve the Palestinian-Israeli Question. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. NIS 130, 267 pgs. (English)
Shamir, Shimon, and Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, eds. The Camp David Summit - What Went Wrong?: Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians Analyze the Failure of the Boldest Attempt Ever to Resolve the Palestinian-Israeli Question. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. NIS 130, 267 pgs. (English)
With the end of Oslo, Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans rushed to disseminate their own versions of what happened from Camp David to Taba 2000-01. It's no surprise that the Israelis blame the Palestinians, the Palestinians blame the Israelis, and the United States feels sheepish for hosting a failed summit and returned to their safety zone to help tow the Israeli line.
The three common narratives spring from their separate autopsies performed after the peace process expired. These postmortem analyses have been published, proselytized, and canonized, each offering an individual's view with only slight deviations from their camp's official line.
The problem is that the three versions do not tell the whole story. "The Camp David Summit - What Went Wrong?" takes a different approach.
