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Bitterlemons Layout1.Indd The Best of Bitterlemons Five years of writings from Israel and Palestine Edited by Yossi Alpher, Ghassan Khatib and Charmaine Seitz Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire The Best of Bitterlemons Five years of writings from Israel and Palestine edited by Yossi Alpher, Ghassan Khatib and Charmaine Seitz Table of Contents Preface 11 Palestinian Forward 13 Israeli Forward 15 1. Land 17 The green line as past and future boundary David Newman 17 The ghostly green line Ihab Abu Ghosh 19 It would bring about a terrible response a conversation with Ephraim Sneh 22 The Sharon line Yisrael Harel 24 Settlements plus Ghassan Khatib 26 Only think of us as human Sharif Omar 28 Israel’s interests take primacy a conversation with Dore Gold 30 Tearing down the walls Samah Jabr 32 2. Identity & Culture 35 Copyright © by bitterlemons.org, bitterlemons-international.org Coming to terms and bitterlemons-dialogue.org Yossi Alpher 35 The long journey to two demands All Rights Reserved Adel Manna 38 Printed in Jerusalem, 2007 Human misery comes from human mistakes a conversation with Ahmad Yassin 40 Reflections of a Jerusalem Christian ISBN: 978-965-555-285-0 George Hintlian 43 Turbo Design Turbo Touching the core: The politics of narrative on the Temple Mount/ Solving the refugee problem Haram al-Sharif Daniel Seidemann 45 Yossi Beilin 80 The broken boundaries of statehood and citizenship Sari Hanafi 83 3. History 49 Zionism & the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Shlomo Avineri 49 6. Leadership & Strategy 87 The Palestinian narrative clashes with a two-state solution Arafat put to the test Yossi Alpher 51 Ali Jarbawi 87 The myth says we compromised Arafat’s relevancy a conversation with Meron Benvenisti 54 Boaz Ganor 90 Wiping the landscape clean Ridding ourselves of slavery Issam Nassar 56 a conversation with Abdel Aziz Rantisi 92 What happened to Palestinian nationalism? Hamas is leading the process Salim Tamari 58 a conversation with Matti Steinberg 95 Mind the gap Fateh and Hamas: A coalition in the making? Ghassan Khatib 61 Mahdi Abdul Hadi 98 Arafat’s influence will reach far into the future George Giacaman 101 4. Seeking Security 65 A sound Israeli perspective Gilead Sher 103 Israeli lessons from the armed conflict Zeev Schiff 65 Give peace a chance: women speak out Shulamit Aloni 105 There is no ceasefire with occupation Ghassan Khatib 68 The immediate challenges Yossi Alpher 108 Time for reassessment Shlomo Gazit 69 Power will not moderate Hamas Martin Kramer 110 Instead of the rule of force Maha Abu Dayyeh Shamas 71 We have what it takes to succeed a conversation with Ismail Haniyeh 112 5. Refugees 75 7. Law & Rights 117 Freedom and return: a conflict between two rights? Sari Nusseibeh 75 The question of “prior use” Rami Shehadeh 117 An issue of conflicting rights a conversation with Ingrid Gassner Jaradat 77 If only there were quiet, the Palestinians have numerous Let’s not get delusional opportunities a conversation with Noah Kinarty 120 a conversation with Eyad Sarraj 158 On kangaroos and courts This wall is a land grab Diana Buttu 122 Ghassan Khatib 161 The Hague ignored the security aspect No suicide bombings = no fence a conversation with Michael Eitan 125 Yossi Alpher 163 People power & resisting the wall Islah Jad 165 8. Informal Initiatives 129 The Israeli public is ready for radical compromise Yossi Alpher 129 10. The United States, International Actors & the Roadmap 169 The initiative for a ceasefire between Israelis and Palestinians Eyal Erlich 131 Probe Sharon’s biggest worry Hanna Amireh 169 Addressing the violence: my roadmap to peace Eyad El Sarraj 133 Reform and resistance Jamil Hilal 171 The eighth day of Taba Yossi Beilin 136 Bush may be around for six more years Oded Eran 173 Achieving our fundamental aspirations a conversation with Yasser Abed Rabbo 138 The Arab initiative and the role of Arab diplomacy Marwan Muasher 176 Israel’s best option Gerald M. Steinberg 140 Bush’s dedication to the cause Yossi Alpher 179 We will give you more of us a conversation with Ali Jarbawi 142 The Quartet’s swan song Gerald M. Steinberg 182 It’s in the Palestinians’ interest a conversation with Avi Farhan 145 Three pieces of advice Ghassan Khatib 184 A strategic vision a conversation with Marwan Barghouti 147 Letter from Rafah Ghazi Hamad 186 Talk straight to the new Palestinian leadership 9. Unilateralism 151 Saul Singer 187 We have an opportunity Is the magic over? a conversation with Khalil Shikaki 189 Aluf Benn 151 As if Palestinians are occupying Israeli land Another round in the war a conversation with Zakaria al-Agha 192 Yehoshua Porath 153 Egypt: More than a “third party” Mohamed Ahmed Abd Elsalam 156 11. The Iraq War 195 Camp David: An exit strategy for Barak Ghassan Khatib 231 It really will create a new Middle East a conversation with Shimon Peres 195 A preliminary summit should have been held a conversation with Shlomo Ben-Ami 233 This is our hope a conversation with Nabil Shaath 197 Nothing tangible was on the table a conversation with Muhammad Dahlan 236 Don’t celebrate too soon Mouin Rabbani 200 Camp David—The US-Israeli bargain Bruce Riedel 238 A prelude to Israeli-Palestinian peace Shlomo Ben-Ami 201 14. War in Lebanon 243 12. Politics, Economics & the Public 205 Israel was the aggressor a conversation with Ahmed Tibi 243 A society in the dark Lily Galili 205 Israel is focused on the north, not Palestine Yossi Alpher 245 Barely surviving Adel Zagha 207 Lessons from the war in Lebanon Ephraim Sneh 247 Winning over public opinion David Kimche 210 International involvement more important than ever Ghassan Khatib 249 Public opinion is critical but complicated Khalil Shikaki 212 Between Iran, the Shiites and Sunni Arab weakness Asher Susser 251 We need a transformational approach, too a conversation with Aaron David Miller 214 The dangers of economic separation 15. Looking Ahead 255 Ephraim Kleiman 217 Democracy is an enlightened choice for peace Palestinian economic revival Mudar Kassis 255 Nigel Roberts and Stefano Mocci 219 If you will it, it is not a dream Are the Palestinian Arabs in Israel radicalizing? Shlomo Gazit 257 Sammy Smooha 221 Israel, Palestine and the US: the next four years Democratic toward Jews and Jewish toward Arabs Dialogue no. 1, March 2005, between Ghassan Khatib a conversation with Ahmed Tibi 224 and Yossi Alpher 259 13. Camp David 229 16. Authors 267 Barak was willing, and so were US Jews Yossi Alpher 229 The Best of Bitterlemons Five years of writings from Israel and Palestine Preface For five years, the bitterlemons family of internet publications has hosted a rare gathering of enemies and friends. From the neutral territory of the internet, our websites have sponsored important contemporary discussions on the Middle East peace process– crossing state boundaries, military lines and taboos–helping readers to understand the region’s complexities. The Best of Bitterlemons: Five years of writings from Israel and Palestine is a compilation book of the most prescient and important articles published through the bitterlemons family of publications. Creators and editors Yossi Alpher and Ghassan Khatib introduce this volume of 83 short essays and interviews touching on the most fundamental issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Contributors include former prime ministers, negotiators, military leaders and journalists, hailing largely from Israel and Palestine. The articles selected for publication in The Best of Bitterlemons faithfully reflect the diversity of authors and topics that characterizes bitterlemons, while telling the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a unique and informative way. This book was arranged by selecting some of the most interesting bitterlemons contributions and then grouping them into key issues, which appear as chapters. Any categorization is in essence a political act—the kind that bitterlemons on the web has studiously avoided. The issues explored under each heading are not exhaustive, but provide several windows into subjects that are important to both Palestinians and Israelis. The bitterlemons family of publications was born in 2001 with the commencement of bitterlemons.org. The initial magazine sought to provide a neutral space on the internet for Palestinians and Israelis to present their views on equal footing. Each week, the Israeli and Palestinian editors invite others from their own respective communities to write or be interviewed for the publication, with the idea of presenting four very different views—two Israeli, two Palestinian—on an agreed- upon topic. In 2003, the project expanded to include bitterlemons-international. org, also a weekly publication of four articles or interviews on subjects important to the entire Middle East, and including contributors from all 13 The Best of Bitterlemons Five years of writings from Israel and Palestine over the world. In 2005, bitterlemons-international.org was developed, Palestinian Forward which allowed two writers from different perspectives to correspond in depth on a particular subject, with their exchange then published online. Creating a space for our voices to be heard Even at the bitter height of the Palestinian uprising and after the events The bitterlemons family of publications has served as an important outlet of September 11th and the war in Iraq, the bitterlemons publications for Palestinians, in an atmosphere where the Palestinian perspective is have been uncommonly successful. Their readers number around either invisible or is filtered through the agendas of others. Articles or 100,000, including 13,000 regular subscribers. Their articles have been contributors solicited by one editor of the bitterlemons family are not reproduced and redistributed in English, Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, French, screened or vetoed by the other side. On these pages, Palestinians—all Portuguese and additional languages by newspapers from Saudi Arabia kinds of Palestinians—speak for themselves on the issues most crucial to Israel, websites from Syria to Iran, and governmental and private on- to our time.
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