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"Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he introduced him to Abu Ala, one of Yasser Arafat's top aides. They were in Oslo, and this was the first official encounter between Israel and the PLO. The atmosphere was tense. Savir read from prepared notes: "The aim of Israel's elected government," he began, "is to bring about a historic reconciliation with the Palestinian people. We have no interest in only a cosmetic change of the status quo. It is not our wish to control your lives. . . ."
����������For more than half a century, both sides had denied the other's right to exist; both had sustained a terrible toll. Yet in the three years that followed that first encounter, after thousands of hours of subtle and complex secret negotiations, they hammered out the blueprint for a peaceful conclusion to a conflict that had seemed irre-
concilable. This book is the Israeli chief negotiator's extraordinary account of those negotiations, their implementation and aftermath, and of the un-
likely partnership that emerged between Yitz-
hak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Shimon Peres.
���������� As the process initiated at Oslo began to re-
shape allegiances throughout the Middle East, Israeli and Palestinian extremists set out to violently destroy what they described as "the threat of peace." This is the inside story of the race between those committed to reconciliation and those who vowed to destroy the peace. It is also a poignant story of the developing relationship between Savir and Abu Ala, both from Jeru-
salem, both committed to their people, to their land, and to peace.
������������Will the peace process initiated at Oslo prevail against the assault of extremists and enemies of peace on both sides? The answer to this question, and the future of the peace process, is crucial not just to Israel and the Palestinians, but to the Middle East and the world.
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #1197631 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-10-06
- Released on: 2010-10-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
Amazon.com Review
The director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, who also served as his nation's chief representative in the secret negotiations that led to the Oslo peace accord between Israel and the PLO, offers his insider's account of how the historic agreement came about.
"I believe," Savir writes at the fiftieth anniversary of his homeland's founding, "that for all it has achieved, the Oslo process is the true test of [Israel's] maturity as a strong modern nation able to coexist with former enemies." It was also a test of the ability of Israelis to coexist amongst themselves; Savir brings a valuable perspective on the rivalry between Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin (and how it affected their efforts to unite Israel for peace) and the efforts of opposition leaders to thwart settlement. He takes us throught the peace process step by step, explaining precisely what was achieved to ensure, in the words of his negotiating partner, Palestinian Council leader Abu Ala, they could give "the next generation... a life different from the one we had known."
From Publishers Weekly
Savir, Israel's chief negotiator with the PLO from 1993 to 1996, resigned as director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry when Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition took power. His dramatic chronicle detailing three years of secret and semi-secret talks between Israel and the Palestinians?mostly in Oslo, but also in Rome, Geneva, Cairo, Tunis?is a remarkable piece of living history. As re-created here, the Oslo rounds, which led to the historic handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat in 1993, were far more productive than the official talks in Washington. Savir accuses the Clinton administration of erring in placing little faith in the Oslo process, because it hoped, in vain as it turned out, for a breakthrough with Syria. Savir, who currently heads the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv, credits Rabin, Shimon Peres and Arafat with taking bold, unpopular decisions in their determination to break a seemingly endless cycle of violence. He portrays the complex negotiations as a marathon chess game fraught with feints, brutal confrontations and mutual suspicion, yet at their infrequent best, the participants formed a problem-solving partnership pointing the way to future Arab-Israeli cooperation.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The end of the Gulf War set in motion a series of events that had the potential to transform the Middle East. The most far-reaching of these developments dealt with negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The so-called Madrid track reflected the public side of such negotiations, while the secret Oslo track focused on more substantive issues. This book, written by Israel's chief negotiator at the Oslo talks (who was also Israel's consul general in New York, 1988-92), is a detailed account of some 3500 hours of negotiations between the two sides. The narrative is easy to follow as the author vividly describes the multitude of complicated issues in the negotiations. An important lesson learned is the pitfall of asymmetrical negotiations, where the weaker side eventually succumbs to the weight of its more powerful adversary. Recommended for academic and public libraries.ANader Entessar, Spring Hill Coll., Mobile, AL
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Important for the insider's perspective
By Matthew Smith
These types of books are very important because they give the reader a different perspective of the history. While it is true that many times the authors are too close to the actual history they are writing about to give a complete account, what they do is add to the histories giving readers a broader perspective and thus a more complete understanding of the events and the people who shaped them. This account gives the reader the personal point of view of one of the most important and involved negotiators in the Olso process from the Israeli side.
For me this human element was very essential to my reorienting my understanding of the Oslo process, especially as regards the Israeli side. My previous view was very cynical as regards both the PLO (Arafat in particular) and the Israelis. Arafat was distant, weak and losing relevance inside the territories to the internal leadership and the intafada. The Oslo negotiations were his way back into relevance, whereas the Israelis saw a weakened Arafat as an opportunity to hash out an agreement that would secure their main interests at the front end while relegating the Palestinians' interests to negotiations to be determined on the back end. I originally saw Oslo as a cynical power play by the Israelis to extract the most advantage from the Palestinians while giving up very little.
In reading this book though, it is obvious how much the participants were really looking for an historic deal to take place that would improve the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians, and when the author takes the reader inside the room during these discussions one becomes privy to just how enormously complicated this process was. This is the aspect of the book that opened my eyes the most. It is that, not only were there complicated discussions about land, resources, protection forces and very difficult cooperation arrangments, but that these negotiations were set against the backdrop of one hundred years of animus, conflict, war, occupation, propaganda and two conflicting and mutually exclusive national narratives. This the reader gets to see first hand how the mistrust and historical grievances affect every aspect of the negotiations.
This book also, in an oblique way, goes along way in explaining why Oslo failed. Both sides failed to prepare their people for the long road that lay ahead. The Israelis particularly failed to brace their public for the ebb and flow that this process was bound to produce, instead Oslo was touted as the process that would change the Israelis' lives in a single bound. Instead of bracing the public for the inevitable backlash from extremists, on both sides, they raised Oslo to heights it couldn't attain so soon, and when the inevitable violence did occur Labor was not prepared to deal with fall out from right. They set expectations too high, and then instead of having an adult conversation with their people they laid the blame on Arafat thus undercutting their partner as well as their own platform by undermining that partner. It was a tragic failing.
Another aspect I find so strange among Israeli analysts and negotiators, such as this author, is how they can be so good at analyzing Arafat and his style of governing on the tactical level, but then turn around and be so bad at applying this same skill to the strategic level. I have found this to be the case in every account I have ever read from Israelis on the inside. This author discusses in perfect detail, on the tactical level, how Arafat conducted these negotiations in that he was a leader through patronage and not an iron fisted dictator. Finding one of his men becoming too important or influential he would replace him with someone else to reassert his authority and assure no one would become a rival. This style made the negotiations extremely difficult as Arafat would reshuffle the teams as his needs dictated. The author was very good at analyzing how this method of governance hurt the negotiations and made continuity almost impossible, but as always when the author pulls back form the tactical and discusses the strategic aspects of Arafat's rule he forgets everything he just discussed and describes Arafat as if he is an all powerful leader that controls with an iron fist. He describes Arafats failure to put a stop to extremists like Hamas and IJ as if Arafat did not have to concern himself with popular opinion. I have never understood this dichotomy between the strategic and tactical analysis.
The last point I find telling about these negotiations is Rabin's utter refusal to go up against the settler movement at all. The fact that he wouldn't even discuss the removal of the settlements in Hebron and even made their security a priority over the Palestinians need to administer one of its largest cities shows a lack of seriousness on the part of the Israeli government. These are points that force me to remain cynical about the Israeli governments true intentions for the end game to the Oslo process. If they refused to entertain the removal of even the most unrealistic of Israeli settlements, how are we to believe that they were serious about an end that would be even remotely acceptable to the Palestinians?
While I remain cynical about the top leadership of both sides, what this book, and others like it, have done is to show me that there are many people honestly striving for a just and equitable solution to these complex problems. It showed me the reality of how difficult it is to take pragmatic steps when these issues are so terribly enmeshed in religious, ideological and historical concerns as well. While I remain cynical, it still gives me hope to see honest people striving and working so diligently for solutions to these problems. I recommend this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent reading
By A Customer
It is difficult to do justice to this work and its author, if one is entrenched in traditional views of the conflict. But Savir deserves better than that. While being emotionally involved (it would be inhuman to expect the opposite of him), he gives an accurate description of the failings, and triumphs, on BOTH sides of the conflict. He displays a rare and keen understanding of how each side sees itself as David and the other as Goliath, and why they are both correct, and both mistaken in that assessment. This is an excellent description, from the inside, of a sometimes brutal negotiating process that highlights the brilliant and creative thinking that both sides were able to arrive at, as well as every difficult, frustrating, painful inch along the way. It is impossible for a thinking person, regardless of his/her initial position, to see the conflict in the same terms after reading this work.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Good Israeli perspective!
By Barry D. Smith
Uri Savir, who played a key role in the secret Oslo negotiations that occurred during the early 1990's, wrote this book describing his experience in the peace talks. Savir does a remarkable job of detailing the behind-the-scene dealings that occured while the public was kept (in the early parts of the negotiations) in the dark. However, my one main complaint, and this is probably unavoidable on his part, is that it is blatantly from an Israeli perspective. While he always speaks of his Arab counterparts in friendly terms, Savir shows his ignorance of their point of view in several places. I say this cultural naivete is unavoidable because throughout the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, there has been, sometimes on purpose, a recurring theme of refusing to see the conflict through the Arab perspective. It is naturally impossible for one culture of people to sympathize with another group of people. So I commend Savir for his behind-the-scenes analysis, but be careful of his subtle Israeli point of view/bias.
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