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In this book, Itamar Rabinovich examines how Israel is facing a new and changing regional order in the Middle East, from the ramifications of the Arab Spring to a receding U.S. role and beyond. The author looks specifically at Israel's evolving relationships with Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Palestinians. He asserts that, although some new developments pose threats to Israel's national security and diplomatic position, Israel could take advantage of some of those changes in to become a more active and a better-integrated player in the region's politics. For this to happen, he conclud

In this book, Itamar Rabinovich examines how Israel is facing a new and changing regional order in the Middle East, from the ramifications of the Arab Spring to a receding U.S. role and beyond. The author looks specifically at Israel's evolving relationships with Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Palestinians. He asserts that, although some new developments pose threats to Israel's national security and diplomatic position, Israel could take advantage of some of those changes in to become a more active and a better-integrated player in the region's politics. For this to happen, he concludes, Israel should take advantage of the massive effort invested by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to bring about an Israeli-Palestinian final status agreement.

Syria and the Syrian land : the nineteenth-century roots of twentieth-century developments -- France and the Levant -- Between nationalists and "moderates" : France and Syria in the 1930s -- Oil and local politics : the French-Iraqi negotiations of the early 1930s -- Inter-Arab relations foreshadowed : the question of the Syrian throne in the 1920s and 1930s -- The greater Syria plan and Palestine problem : historical roots, 1919-1939 -- An anthropologist as a political officer : Evans-Pritchard, the French, and the ʻAlawis / with Gitta Yaffe -- The compact minorities and the Syrian state, 1918-1945 -- Syria : a case of minority might -- Arab political parties : ideology and ethnicity -- The Baʻth regime -- Historiography and politics in Syria -- Syria's quest for a regional role -- Syria, Israel, and the Palestine question, 1945-1977 -- Israel and Husni Zaʻim -- Syria, inter-Arab relations, and the outbreak of the Six Day War -- Israel, Syria, and Lebanon -- From deposit to commitment : the evolution of US-Israel-Syrian peace negotiations, 1993-2000 -- Israel and Syria, Rabin and Asad -- On public diplomacy and the Israeli-Syrian negotiations during the waning of Hafiz al-Asad's rule -- Ehud Barak and the collapse of the peace process -- The Bush administration, Israel, and Syria, 2001-2008

Considerably expanded to include the impact of the 2003 war in Iraq and its aftermath, this new edition of Waging Peace provides a unique insight into the critical debate on the future of peace in the Middle East. A former chief negotiator for Israel, noted scholar-diplomat Itamar Rabinovich examines the complete history of Arab-Israeli relations beginning in 1948. He then gives a vivid account of the peace processes of 1992-1996 and the more dispiriting record since then.

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. 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

ABSTRACT
Palestinian academic Nur Masalha, who lives and teaches in London, published a thick volume seeking to anchor his arguments in an academic framework of a sort. Palestine: 4000 Years of History is an effort to document the argument for historical continuity between the Semitic-Arab peoples who had inhabited Palestine and the contemporary Palestinians. For Masalha, Palestine is a defined entity with its own native population embodied in the Palestinian Arabs. There was also a Jewish presence in Palestine during the biblical period but it was brief and insignificant. For the Jewish people and the Zionist Movement the term "Palestine" referred to the Land of Israel, the historical homeland of the Jewish people of the Land of the Bible. Terminology and nomenclature are important components of every national conflict. At the heart of such conflicts is the struggle for control of a specific territory and the respective claims by the contenders to absolute ownership of that territory. Such conflicts over the very name of a contested territory are not unique to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article surveys the historical evolution of the contest over narratives between Israelis and Palestinians.