Bücher von Itamar Rabinovich

Established in 1977, the Middle East Contemporary Survey (MECS), a unique annual record of political developments in the Middle East, is acknowledged as the standard reference work on events and trends in the region. Volume XI covers the year 1987.

Die erste große Biographie über den Hoffnungsträger des Nahen Ostens.Bald ein Vierteljahrhundert liegt das Attentat auf dem Platz der Könige in Tel Aviv (heute Jitzchak-Rabin-Platz) zurück, das den Anfang vom Ende des hoffnungsvoll begonnenen Friedensprozesses im Nahen Osten bedeutete. Das Opfer, Jitzchak Rabin, hatte eine der Hauptrollen in diesem Prozess gespielt und wurde dafür 1994 gemeinsam mit Schimon Peres und Jassir Arafat mit dem Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichnet. Bezahlt hat er dafür mit seinem Leben, ermordet von einem jüdisch-israelischen Rechtsextremisten. Rabins Rolle als Friedenskämpfer ist seither vakant geblieben, die Fronten haben sich beständig verhärtet und radikale Haltungen befeuern sich gegenseitig - auf beiden Seiten.Doch Rabins Leben und Wirken steht in der Geschichte Israels für weit mehr als die Oslo-Prozesse: Als Untergrundkämpfer in der vorstaatlichen Zeit, ranghoher Militär in der israelischen Armee, im diplomatischen Dienst sowie als Verteidigungsminister und zweifacher Ministerpräsident war er in allen Phasen des jungen Staates maßgeblicher Akteur.Itamar Rabinovich war in den 1990er Jahren einer von Rabins engen politischen Weggefährten - sein Botschafter in Washington und Chefunterhändler in den schwierigen Gesprächen mit Syrien. Als Insider gelingt es Rabinovich, dem Leser sowohl den Staatsmann näherzubringen als auch dessen mitunter sehr unkonventionelle Persönlichkeit.

The causes of the October War in Israel can be traced to the political, economic, and strategic processes that occurred in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973

A major casualty of the assassin's bullet that struck down Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was a prospective peace accord between Syria and Israel. For the first time, a negotiator who had unique access to Rabin, as well as detailed knowledge of Syrian history and politics, tells the inside story of the failed negotiations. His account provides a key to understanding not only U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East but also the larger Arab-Israeli peace process. During the period from 1992 to 1996, Itamar Rabinovich was Israel's ambassador to Washington, and the chief negotiator with Syria. In this book, he looks back at the course of negotiations, terms of which were known to a surprisingly small group of American, Israeli, and Syrian officials. After Benjamin Netanyahu's election as Israel's prime minister in May 1996, a controversy developed. Even with Netanyahu's change of policy and harder line toward Damascus, Syria began claiming that both Rabin and his successor Peres had pledged full withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Rabinovich takes the reader through the maze of diplomatic subtleties to explain the differences between hypothetical discussion and actual commitment. "e;To the students of past history and contemporary politics,"e; he writes, "e;nothing is more beguiling than the myriad threads that run across the invisible line which separates the two."e; The threads of this story include details of Rabin's negotiations and their impact through two subsequent Israeli administrations in less than a year, the American and Egyptian roles, and the ongoing debate between Syria and Israel on the factual and legal bases for resuming talks. The author portrays all sides and participants with remarkable flair and empathy, as only a privileged player in the events could do. In any assessment of future negotiations in the Middle East, Itamar Rabinovich's book will prove indispensable.

Provides insight into the prospects for genuine peace in the Middle East. This title explains the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians - a classic dispute between two national movements claiming the same land. It considers the broader political, cultural, and increasingly religious conflict between the Jewish state and Arab nationalism.

Considerably expanded to include the impact of the 2003 war in Iraq and its aftermath, this new edition of Waging Peace provides a unique insight into the critical debate on the future of peace in the Middle East. A former chief negotiator for Israel, noted scholar-diplomat Itamar Rabinovich examines the complete history of Arab-Israeli relations beginning in 1948. He then gives a vivid account of the peace processes of 1992-1996 and the more dispiriting record since then. His updated analysis on Iraq, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon--and on the expanding role of the United States in the Middle East--sheds new light on the long and tumultuous history between Arabs and Jews. As Rabinovich brings the conflict into this century, he widens the scope of his proposals for achieving normalized and peaceful Arab-Israeli relations. While he considers the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians--a classic dispute between two national movements claiming the same land--Rabinovich also studies the broader political, cultural, and increasingly religious conflict between Israel and Arab nationalism and discusses the region in an international context. Rabinovich's firsthand experiences as a negotiator and an ambassador provide an extraordinary perspective on the major players involved. The result is a shrewd assessment of the past and current state of affairs, as well as a hopeful look at the possibilities for a peaceful future.