Immigration and Ethnic Formation in a Deeply Divided Society: The Case of the 1990s Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union in Israel
by Majid Al Haj · 20 Nov 2003
. Of course “cultural integration” is out of question. The document emphasizes: “There is no need for us to have syndrome of ‘embracing the Arabs.’ A cold peace that reflects mutual strategic interests is enough” (Arad 2001: 47). How does this background affect Israeli attitudes toward the 1990s wave of immigration from the
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
by Isabel Kershner · 16 May 2023 · 472pp · 145,476 words
new partnership was unlike any other Israel had known in the Arab world. Decades after peace treaties had been signed with Egypt and Jordan, a “cold peace” still reigned. Those countries maintained strong security ties with Israel but at the popular level there was hostility against any “normalization” of relations, few business
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
by Nicholas Lemann · 9 Sep 2019 · 354pp · 118,970 words
at risk. American capitalism, forty years after Franklin Roosevelt took office, depended not just on the size and power of the corporation and on its cold peace with the federal government, but also on the passivity of capital. And in turn, the system’s ability to deliver a good life to ordinary
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky and Frank Barat · 9 Nov 2010 · 279pp · 72,659 words
with Jordan and Egypt. Ironically, these peace treaties were concluded because of minimal American involvement in the negotiations. The formula for their success—if the “cold peace” between Israel and its two neighbors can be described as such—was that the treaties did not relate to the Palestine question. The Oslo Accord
The Case for Israel
by Alan Dershowitz · 31 Jul 2003
the fact that the Israelis fired the first shot. In the end, the Egyptians accomplished that goal and recovered the entire Sinai after making a cold peace with Israel. The Syrians failed in their effort to regain the Golan Heights because they refused to make any kind of peace with Israel. Israel
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, Menachem Begin, uprooted the Jewish settlers in the Sinai and returned it, oil fields and all, to Egypt. The decision to make peace, even a cold peace in exchange for the strategically and minerally valuable Sinai, may have cost Sadat his life—as Jordan’s King Abdullah’s decision to even consider
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu
by Anshel Pfeffer · 30 Apr 2018 · 530pp · 154,505 words
’s cherished settlements there, and Begin got a full peace deal with Egypt, separate from the empty promises on the Palestinian issue. It was a “cold peace,” but Israel no longer faced a powerful enemy on its southern border. Egypt became another American ally in the Middle East. Many Likudniks saw Begin
The Reluctant Spy
by John Kiriakou · 30 Jan 2009 · 188pp · 67,427 words
’s direction. Then there was the seemingly endless Arab-Israeli conflict. Egypt and Israel had signed a peace agreement in 1979, but it was a cold peace, and the region was plagued by political brushfires and worse. By the time I started at GW in late August 1982, the Israeli invasion of
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American political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously declared “the end of history.” The United States and Vietnam, where a hot war had punctuated the era of cold peace, normalized ties in 1995, a reconciliation that seemed to demonstrate to most observers that the world would now be marked by peaceful coexistence, with Washington
Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith · 2 Mar 2019
’s special representative in Palestine, Pontius Pilate, they could wash their own hands of the mucky business. Al-Sadat’s treaty with Israel was ‘a cold peace’, and it sent shivers of disgust through the Arabic world. Nizar Qabbani wrote, despairing of the future, They’ve given us the Pill That stops
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words
throughout the area. As one Saudi said, “We were all taught by Egyptians.” It had also signed a treaty with Israel, and a kind of cold peace existed between those two former belligerents. Egypt’s size—and the scale of its armed forces—make it the foundation of the geostrategic balance of
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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Does Capitalism Have a Future?
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