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If you’re looking for something insightful on issues Israel/Palestine, this is it. In this issue we focus on the upcoming Middle East peace conference scheduled for Annapolis, Maryland, in late November. Included are a trio of essays setting the stage and offering some recent history:
The Fall Meeting & the Trend to Focus on Aid Rather than Rights
First published by the Institute for Palestine Studies
By Nadia Hijab and Diana Buttu
The timing and substance of the international meeting called by US President George Bush in his 16 July 2007 speech on the Middle East may end up focusing on aid at the expense of a political solution. This moves further away from the 1991 Madrid international conference and the bilateral Oslo 1993-2000 negotiations and reinforces the trend that was so visible at the 2005 London meeting. This approach has not worked before and is unlikely to work today.
Failure Risks Devastating Consequences
First published in The New York Review of Books
By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Lee Hamilton, Carla Hills, Nancy Kassebaum-Baker,
Thomas R. Pickering, Brent Scowcroft et al.
This letter on the Middle East peace conference was sent by its signers on October 10 to President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The statement is a joint initiative of the US/Middle East Project, Inc. (General Brent Scowcroft, chairman, International Board, and Henry Siegman, president), the International Crisis Group (Gareth Evans, president), and the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program (Steven Clemons, director).
The Arab Peace Initiative, 2002
Adopted by the Council of Arab States
at the Summit Level at its 14th Ordinary Session
This is the Official translation of the full text of a Saudi-inspired peace plan adopted by the Arab summit in Beirut, 2002.
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