The Case for Peace

Alan Dershowitz

Description

In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine–and explains how to move around them and push the process forward. From the division of Jerusalem and Israeli counterterrorism measures to the security fence and the Iranian nuclear threat, his analyses are clear-headed, well-argued, and sure to be controversial. According to Dershowitz, achieving a lasting peace will require more than tough-minded negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. In academia, Europe, the UN, and the Arab world, Israel-bashing and anti-Semitism have reached new heights, despite the recent Israeli-Palestinian movement toward peace. Surveying this outpouring of vilification, Dershowitz deconstructs the smear tactics used by Israel-haters and shows how this kind of anti-Israel McCarthyism is aimed at scuttling any real chance of peace.

Sujets

• Middle Est
• Histoire
• Israel
• The Case for Israel
• Palestine
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 06 janvier 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781118040607
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table of Contents
 
Books by Alan Dershowitz
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
PART I - Overcoming the Geopolitical Barriers to Peace
 
Chapter 1 - The End Result Two States with Secure and Recognized Borders
Chapter 2 - Is the One-State Solution a Barrier to Peace?
Chapter 3 - Is a Noncontiguous Palestinian State a Barrier to Peace?
Chapter 4 - Can Peace Be Achieved without Compromising Rights?
Chapter 5 - Is the Division of Jerusalem a Barrier to Peace?
Chapter 6 - Are the Informal Geneva Accords a Basis for or a Barrier to Peace?
Chapter 7 - Can Israel Make Peace and Prevent Terrorism at the Same Time?
Chapter 8 - Are Israeli Counterterrorism Measures the Cause of Suicide Bombings ...
Chapter 9 - What If a Palestinian State Became a Launching Pad for Terrorism?
Chapter 10 - Will Civil Wars Be Necessary to Bring About Peace?
Chapter 11 - Is the Security Fence a Barrier to Peace?
Chapter 12 - Is a Militarized Palestine a Barrier to Peace?
Chapter 13 - Is the Iranian Nuclear Threat a Barrier to Peace?
 
PART II - Overcoming the Hatred Barriers to Peace
Chapter 14 - More Palestinian Than the Palestinians
 
Academia
Europe
The United Nations
The Arab World
Other Religious Groups
 
Chapter 15 - More Israeli Than the Israelis
Chapter 16 - A Case Study in Hate and Intimidation
 
Who Is Noam Chomsky?
Who Is Norman Finkelstein?
Who Is Alexander Cockburn?
Their Alliance—Their Mode—Their Attacks
Their Attacks against Me
 
Chapter 17 - Will Anti-Semitism Decrease as Israel Moves toward Peace with the Palestinians?
 
CONCLUSION
NOTES
INDEX
Books by Alan Dershowitz
Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights America on Trial The Case for Israel America Declares Independence Why Terrorism Works Shouting Fire Letters to a Young Lawyer Supreme Injustice The Genesis of Justice Just Revenge Sexual McCarthyism The Vanishing American Jew Reasonable Doubts The Abuse Excuse The Advocate’s Devil Contrary to Popular Opinion Chutzpah Taking Liberties Reversal of Fortune The Best Defense Criminal Law: Theory and Process (with Joseph Goldstein and Richard Schwartz) Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Law (with Jay Katz and Joseph Goldstein)

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  Copyright © 2005 by Alan Dershowitz. All rights reserved
 
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Maps used by permission: pp. 22 and 23, Martin Gilbert, Israel, A History (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1998); pp. 37 and 38, Daniel Ross, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004); pp. 42 and 43, Doug Suisman et al., The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2005), accessible at www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG327.pdf
 
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
 
Dershowitz, Alan M.
The case for peace : how the Arab-Israeli conflict can be resolved / Alan Dershowitz.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13 978-0-471-74317-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10 0-471-74317-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Arab-Israeli conflict—1993—Peace. I. Title.
DS119.76.D47 2005
956.9405’4—dc22
2005013731
 

 
This book is dedicated to moderate Israelis and Palestinians who are on the side of peace and who reject those extremists who are more Israeli than the Israelis and more Palestinian than the Palestinians.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Books about peace can be quite contentious. My excellent staff of research assistants fought with me about peace, some thinking I was too accommodating, others that I was not accommodating enough. My greatest appreciation goes to Alexander Blenkinsopp, Aaron Voloj Dessauer, Danielle Sassoon, and Mitch Webber, especially for their willingness to work long hours on a tight schedule without diminishing either their enthusiasm or their brilliance. I extend my usual appreciation to my family for reading drafts and setting me straight, and to my assistant, Jane Wagner, for tolerating my frenetic pace and keeping me on schedule. Finally, thanks to my editor, Hana Lane, for excellent editorial suggestions (even the ones I didn’t accept) and for her belief in this project, and to my agent, Helen Rees, for making things happen.
Introduction
The Case for Peace
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: . . . a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; . . . a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; . . . a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
 
The Israelis and the Palestinians have lived—and died—through too many seasons of warfare, hatred, destruction, and recriminations. They have thrown too many stones and bombs. They have killed too many dreams and dreamers. The time has come for compromise, reconciliation, healing, and a permanent end to the violence. The season of peace may be on the horizon. But unlike the seasons of nature, which come and go without human intervention, the season of peace will not arrive without the participation of many people, with different agendas, aspirations, memories, and worldviews. It will be hard in coming, and if and when it does come, it must last for many seasons of nature and become a permanent change in climate.
The good news is that the elements are all in place. The outline for the solution is obvious to all reasonable people:
1. Two states based on Israeli withdrawal from all of the Gaza Strip and nearly all of the West Bank, with territorial adjustments consistent with Security Council Resolution 242 (see chapter 1 for a full discussion of Resolution 242) and the existing realities on the ground.
2. Some symbolic recognition of the rights of Palestinian “refugees,” including a compensation package and some family reunification, but no absolute “right of return” to Israel of the millions of descendants of those who claim refugee status—a questionable “right” whose exercise would produce the great wrong of quickly turning the Jewish state into yet another Muslim Arab state. All Palestinians should have the right to “return” to what will become the Palestinian state.
3. A division of greater Jerusalem, with the Arab part becoming the capital of the Palestinian state and the Jewish part the recognized capital of Israel.
4. A renunciation of all forms of violence, including terrorism, and an undertaking by the Palestinian state to dismantle terrorist groups and take all reasonable efforts to prevent acts of terrorism, just as Israel has undertaken to prevent and punish Jewish terrorism against Palestinians.
5. An end to the singling out of Israel for demonization and delegitimation—and to the hatred directed against the Jewish state and its citizens and supporters—by international organizations, many academics, religious leaders, and media pundits; and the normalization and acceptance of Israel as a full and equal member of the international community.
This solution, a variation of which was offered by Israel in 2000 and 2001 and then proposed by a group of Israelis and Palestinians at Geneva in 2003, is consistent with the “road map,” and it holds the best prospect for real peace. It gives neither side everything it wishes. Nor will it immediately end all terrorism. Like Churchill’s case for “democracy,” this case for peace may be “the worst possible” solution, “except for all the others” that have been tried—and have failed—over the many years of bloodshed.
In The Case for Israel I responded to false charges directed against the Jewish state by the enemies of Israel. I told my audiences that I wished I could have writte