End Game: Does Israel Have a Plan?
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XNP7R29 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 167 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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His research focuses on Israel's foreign policy, its domestic politics, and on U.S.-Israeli relations. Dr. Natan Sachs is a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Before joining Brookings, Sachs was a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, a Fulbright Fellow in Indonesia, and a Visiting Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.
This worldview, following decades of precedent, rejects the need for a full-fledged strategic "solution" to the problem, leading to widespread confusion over Israel's goals. It explores how Israelis' beliefs about their future are formed and how their visions are translated into policy, focusing on three factors in depth: the role of security concerns, ideology, and domestic political constraints that combine to shape Israel's strategic posture.The book contrasts the full range of views in Israel over the future of the West Bank, from supporters of a bi-national state or confederacy on the left, to supporters of a "one state" on the far right of the political spectrum. The book analyses and critiques this approach, arguing forcefully for ending Israeli indecision over the future of the land and in favor of partition and, eventually, peace.. How Israelis envision and plan for the future of their countryDoes Israel have a plan? What does the country want to look like in 10 or 20 years? What borders does it hope to have? Will the West Bank or the Gaza Strip be part of it? Will the Palestinians residing the territories be granted citizenship and become Israeli citizens? Does the country as a whole even know what it wants, what its goals are, or how to achieve them?Israel faces a fundamental question, a "trilemma." It can choose only two of
About the AuthorDr. Before joining Brookings, Sachs was a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, a Fulbright Fellow in Indonesia, and a Visiting Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.. Natan Sachs is a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on Israel's foreign policy, its domestic politics, and on U.S.-Israeli relations