Suchergebnisse

Prologue : Time and History -- March 27, 2002 : Netanya, Tulkarm, Beirut -- March 27, 2002 : Passover Eve in Netanya and Jerusalem - Zinni -- On Suicide Bombings as a Strategy -- March 28, 2002, Jerusalem : Israel Prime Minister's Office -- March 28, 2002, Beirut : The Arab Peace Initiative I -- The Arab Peace Initiative II : a conversation with Thomas L. Friedman -- The Arab Peace Initiative III : the document is written and approved -- Ariel Sharon and the Arab Peace Initiative -- A Kind of Death Tango : Sharon and Arafat -- March 29, 2002 : Operation Defensive Shield and the Inner Palestinian Soul -- Sharon, Weissglass and the American Effort -- The Fence -- Russia -- Behind the Events of March 2002 -- 2002-2021 - Conclusion : March 27, 28 and 29 as a Turning Point.

Abetting the chaos : Western losers -- Presidential blunders : Bush (and Blair), Obama, Trump -- Hapless political philosophers, counterproductive social media -- Interim summary : US post-cold war intervention and Arab collapse -- Reaping the benefits : local winners -- Qasem Soleimani and the Quds force -- Putin : Russia returns to the Middle East -- Netanyahu leverages Arab chaos -- Erdogan and the Kurds : the jury is still out -- The Arab monarchies and MBS's reformist mayhem -- Conclusion : understanding a global grand-strategic event -- Timeline of Arab chaos through December 2018.

Yossi Alpher explains how Israel entered its current situation of growing international isolation, political stalemate, and gathering messianic political influence. He investigates the inability of Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and end their conflict before suggesting ways to moderate and soften the worst aspects of the situation.

Evolution of a grand strategy -- The northern triangle : Iran and Turkey -- Morocco -- The southern periphery -- The Levant minorities -- The Kurds of northern Iraq -- The Jewish dimension -- The American dimension -- End of the first periphery, 1973-1983 -- Iran : periphery nostalgia and its costs -- Israeli skeptics -- Between peripheries : peace, isolation and Islam -- Is there a new periphery? -- Arab reaction -- Can Israel find a regional identity?

Discusses how a joint Israeli-Palestinian Internet-based dialogue project launched in 2001 called bitterlemons.org addressed the key strategic developments of the period immediately following the Summer 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war.