The
Life & Death of the
"The Two-State Solution"
By Mark Bruzonsky & Hisham
Ahmed
An American Jew raised in a
religious and Zionist family who became the first Washington
Representative of the World Jewish Congress
and played a major role in convincing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to
make his historic visit to Israel, and a dispossessed
Palestinian Muslim
born in despair in a
refugee camp who became a distinguished Professor of Middle East
affairs,
join together
to tell the story of what has really happened and why about one of our world's most
important conflicts.
Mark Bruzonsky
Hisham Ahmed Ahmed with Arafat
Bruzonsky with Hillary Clinton
Chapters
underlined, 1 - 10, can be read. Earlier chapters
have been
substantially edited but all remain unfinished.
INTRODUCTION
Introduction -
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Why
this book,
why we are writing it together, why we are using this method, why now?
About
the
authors, their personal involvement with "The Two-State Solution",
their relationship.
The need
for historical
perspective and the importance of personal involvement and experiences.
CHAPTER 1 - IN THE
BEGINNING 1895 - 1917
Herzl
to Brandeis to Balfour
Critical US role in the Balfour Declaration
Seed planted on the ground and ideologically for the "Jewish State"
CHAPTER 2 - BIRTH OF THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION 1917 - 1947
Balfour
to Peel to U.N. Partition Resolution
CHAPTER 3 - ISRAEL BORN, PALESTINE DESTROYED 1947 - 1967
1948, 1956,
Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, origins of PLO
CHAPTER
4 - REBIRTH OF THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION 1967 - 1976
1967
war - 1973 war
Settlements
begin
Step-by-Step Diplomacy
Involvement
of Arab States at Khartoum,
Jordan Civil War
1973 War
Geneva
Conference
Ford-Kissinger
'Reassessment'
CHAPTER 5 - THE POSSIBLE DECADE 1976 - 1987
US
- Carter and Brzezinski take over from Ford and Kissinger
Israel
- Begin and Likud take over from Rabin/Peres and Labor
PLO
- strengthens and evolves with hints of '2 States'
Egypt
- Sadat versus Egyptian Foreign Ministry
Sadat's
Visit to Israel - Mark's role
Quest
for Comprehensive Peace and 'Palestinian Homeland'
Camp
David - Separate Egyptian-Israel peace
Iran
Revolution - hostage crisis
Israelis
and Iran help defeat Carter
Iraq
attacks Iran - Osirak
attack
Lebanon
Invasion - attempt to destroy PLO and make Lebanon Israel-protectorate
state
U.S.
military intervention - Rise
of Hezbollah and suicide bombers
Reagan
Plan
Constant
settlement expansion but still limited numbers
Iran-contra
The
Intifada Ignites
CHAPTER
6 - PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT STORIES 1981 - 1985
CHAPTER 7 - FROM
INTIFADA TO MADRID 1987 - 1991
Intifada
"resumes" after many
years
Iraq invades Kuwai
U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia
Madrid Conference and
'Comprehensive Peace Plan'
CHAPTER
8 - FROM MADRID TO OSLO 1991 - 1995
Negotiating
years after Madrid
The special role of Dr. Haider Abdel-Shafi
OSLO - Rabin, Arafat, Clinton and
the unprecedented White
House Ceremony
Quotes from Mark's live commentary
on CTV throughout the ceremony
Rabin Assassination
CHAPTER
9 - FALSE PEACE TURNS INTO DISASTER 1995 - 2001
Furious
Zionist and Jewish Neocon
counter-reaction
on one side
Rrise of Hamas and the opponents on the 2-State
Opponents on the other side
Rabin
Assassinated - Peres and Netanyahu compete
Neocon counter-revolution assaults "Oslo Peace
Process" - PNAC launched in USA
Occupation worsens, Jerusalem increasingly cut-off and
surrounded, Settlements expanding
Apartheid regulations escalate
Clinton expands IRAQ bombings and sanctions, but holds back from full
war
Clinton and Barak push Camp David II on Arafat
Arafat
blamed for failure and isolation campaign
begins
The coming of Intifada II
Gore versus Bush/Cheney in USA
CHAPTER
10 - SHARON COMETH, ARAFAT GOETH 2001 - 2006
Sharon
Ignites Intifada
II
and prepares to become PM
Sheikh
Yassin, founder of Hamas, assassinated
The
isolation, imprisonment, and stealth
assassination of Yasser Araft
Bush/Cheney/Sharon Years
- The Quartet,
The Roadmap, all while Afghanistan and Iraq Invaded
Hamas victorious 2006
Israel and US counter rise of Hamas
CHAPTER
11 - WARS - LEBANON and GAZA, IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN, Cold-War IRAN
2006-2008
Hamas and Hezbollah rising
Israel war with
Hezbollah and Hamas
Efforts to save and further
empower Fatah
Attempts to keep Christian regime
empowered in Lebanon
Annapolis 2008 - a kind
of Madrid II
CHAPTER
12 - Obama to the Rescue - Bumbles and
Stumbles
2009 - 2010
Settlement
Freeze Battle
Obama
outmanuevered and outgunned like Carter and
Clinton before him
The Israel/Jewish Lobby -- AIPAC,
CUFI, JSTREET, Presidents Conference
CHAPTER 13 - Arab Spring,
United Nations manuevering 2011-2013
Arab
Spring - Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, and regional upheavals
Palestine
Papers
United
Nations "Membership" Redux
Great Powers manuevering for future advantage
Obama
and Netanyahu reelected with each opposing the other
CHAPTER 14
- DIFFERENT ENDGAMES ENVISIONED BY ALL
Israelis determined to control -
Revisionist Zionist ideology
Palestinians - clinging to old concepts while becoming Indians on
Reservations
US - policy and ideology
contradictions and hypocrisies increasingly exposed
CHAPTER 14
- WHAT NOW?
An
outline of what could be done to prevent another
generation
of endless
conflict, hatred, and killing.
This outline should serve as bridge to another book: WHAT NOW
THAT THE
2-STATE SOLUTION IS DEAD?
APPENDIX
Throughout the book we at
times make reference to
past writings, TV appearances, and events we were personally
involved
with. When we do these
could be footnoted and included in a substantial Appendix.
Alternatively these materials
could be made available at a website designed to promote the book and .
MARK
& HISHAM TOGETHER:
1992 - Joint article - "Rabin's Autonomy Trap"
1994 - Long discussion together which became two half-hour TV
programs at
the time.
MARK
Mark - Meets Sadat alone and helps convince him to go to Israel - 1977
Mark - Interview with Lova Eliav - former Secretary-General ruling
Labor Party
- 1978
Mark - Interview with Boutros Boutros-Ghali -1979
Mark - 1982
- The Paris
Declaration - "The Balfour Declaration of the Palestinian People".
Mark - 1983 - At the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington
Mark - 1986 - "The Second Defeat of Palestine", Journal of Palestine
Studies
Mark - 1988 - Op Ed, Chicago Tribune, The Necessity of Living Together
Mark - 1992 - Interview with General Matti Peled
Mark - 1993 - Live commentary for CTV throughout the
Rabin-Arafat-Clinton White
House ceremony
Mark - 2002 - Keynote Address at Univ Chicago Model U.N. - standing
ovation
3000+
HISHAM:
Hisham
- “Palestinian Institutions Must Develop
Critical Strategies,” Al-Fajr Jerusalem Palestinian Weekly,
1986.
Hisham -
“Intifada in Palestinian
Political Thought Needed,” Al-Fajr Jerusalem Palestinian Weekly,
1991.
Hisham
- Palestinian State-Formation: Means and
Ends" American-Arab Affairs 1990.
Hisham -
“Realism
Misperceived" in book published in
Netherlands in 1995
Hisham - as Fulbright Scholar monograph about Hamas - 1996
Hisham - anonymous article highly critical of PA and Oslo agreement - ?
Hisham -
“The Aqsa Intifada and the
Nightmares of Political Settlements,” (in Arabic) Al-Ayyam Newspaper,
2000
Hisham - “The
Aqsa Intifada and the
Geneva Accords” + "The Geneva Accords: Sharon's Siege or Rescue" (in
Arabic) Al-Ayyam Newspaper, 2003
Hisham - chosen to interview Palestinian presidential candidates on TV
-
2006
BOOK APPENDIX - Recommended
Books and
Documentaries
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