The Middle East Peace Process

by Ginat, Joseph; Perkins, Edward J.; Corr, Edwin G.; Bin Talal, El Hassan; Boren, David L.; Corr, Edwin G.

• ISBN13: 9780806135229
• ISBN10: 0806135220
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Political stability is a crucial precondition for peace in the Middle East. In The Middle East Peace Process: Vision versus Reality, Joseph Ginat, Edward J. Perkins, and Edwin G. Corr have assembled a comprehensive overview of the complex peace negotiations taking place among Middle Eastern nations to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and forge normal relations between Arab nations and Israel. More than thirty academics and practitioners probe, discuss, and engage themselves with issues concerning the peace process. The volume focuses first on the Oslo Agreement and the Palestinian Track; then addresses Israeli relations with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq; and concludes with an examination of relations between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem. The Middle East Peace Process is the result of the Center for Peace Studies conference "The Peace Process in the Middle East," cosponsored by the International Program Center at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Haifa in Israel. The volume features a foreword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan and a preface by David L. Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Foreword HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan	viii
Preface David Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: Vision versus Reality	1	(20)
Joseph Ginat
Edward J. Perkins
Edwin G. Corr
PART I The Oslo Agreement, the Palestinian Track, and New Options in the Middle East
Oslo and the Ambiguities of Peace	21	(18)
Robert L. Rothstein
The Oslo Peace Process: Patterns, Paradoxes, and Prospects	39	(12)
Gabriel Ben-Dor
The Changing Structure of Public Opinion in the Middle East	51	(5)
Fredrik Barth
Are Real Coexistence and Normalization Possible?	56	(8)
Shlomo Gazit
The Official Israeli--Palestinian Track: An Assessment	64	(5)
Menachem Klein
The Peace Process and Scenarios for a Permanent Solution of the Palestinian Question	69	(8)
Khalil Elian
The Long-Term Economic Benefits of Peace Stability in the Middle East	77	(6)
Onn Winckler
The Oslo Process and Jewish Public Opinion in Israel: A Story of Disappointment?	83	(8)
Ephraim Yuchtman-Ya'ar
How Hamas Thinks	91	(13)
Shaul Mishal
The Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Peace Process: The Case of an Unbuilt Bridge	104	(27)
Reuven Aharoni
Joseph Ginat
PART II Countries with Peace Agreements with Israel: Egypt and Jordan
Lessons from Greek--Turkish Relations for the Arab--Israeli Conflict	131	(9)
David Kushner
Peace with Israel in Egypt's Policy	140	(11)
Yoram Meital
Jordan's Perspectives of Peace	151	(16)
Mohanna Haddad
The Jordanian--Israeli Peace: The View from Amman	167	(11)
Joseph Nevo
The Peace Process: A Jordanian Perspective	178	(15)
Rateb M. Amro
PART III Countries without Peace Agreements with Israel
Lebanon's Position in the Peace Process	193	(6)
Kais Firro
Lebanon and the Arab--Israeli Conflict	199	(12)
Marius Deeb
Syrian--Israeli Relations on the Eve of the Peace Process	211	(18)
Moshe Ma'oz
Israeli--Syrian Peace Negotiations (December 1999--March 2000): A Missed Opportunity?	229	(17)
Eyal Zisser
Iraq and the Middle East Peace Process: 1968--2000	246	(23)
Amatzia Baram
PART IV Jerusalem and the Peace Process
Creative Approaches for the Coexistence of National and Religious Identities in Jerusalem	269	(23)
Enrico Molinaro
Jerusalem in the Peace Process	292	(8)
Manual Hassassian
The Palestinians: From the Sidelines to Major Player in Jerusalem	300	(36)
Moshe Amirav
Demarcating Jerusalem's Borders	336	(18)
Menachem Klein
The Future Status of Jerusalem: Views of the Israeli and Palestinian Publics	354	(17)
Ephraim Yuchtman-Ya'ar
Temple Mount -- al Haram al-Sharif: A Proposal for Solution	371	(12)
Joseph Ginat
Postscript, May 2002	383	(37)
Joseph Ginat
Edward J. Perkins
Edwin G. Corr
The Contributors	420	(8)
Index	428