Results for “Peace Corps”

…esset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first, bold move toward a possible peace, marked just the beginning of a difficult negotiating road. But there was one passage in his speech that touched me especially. He ran through the history...

…tional engaging projects. This perspective is definitely pacifist. And by serving development and prosperity, it serves peace. China’s analysis needs to be studied. In the past, the East was the place where goods were born, and the West where they matured. Today, the West is stan...

…ousands of Palestinians inside the State of Israel. I think it was the very fact we were talking about a comprehensive peace agreement that made it so hard for my Orthodox and right-of-center coalition partners. They didn’t see the attraction of coming to final terms of peace. T...

…scene dominated not by fellow academics, but by hard men defined by struggle and intrigue. During the heady days of the peace process, he became a key point of contact for the Americans, the Israelis, the Arabs, and much of the rest of the international community. I came to know...

/ BARAK / 46 viewed Hafez al-Assad as a natural partner for peace. For years, he’d been a constant, sneering presence on our northern border, denouncing not only Sadat but any Arab leader who’d shown willingness to engage or negotiate with Israel. Amos Oz, one of our finest writ...

…esset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first, bold move toward a possible peace, marked just the beginning of a difficult negotiating road. But there was one passage in his speech that touched me especially. He ran through the history...

…himon. In fact, though Peres’s support inside Labor had secured him the foreign ministry, Rabin had stipulated that all peace talks would remain under his control. Yet as I'd discover nearly a decade later, when I was Prime Minister, even the most carefully planned negotiating s...

…the NT, Con Coughlin shares his memories of covering the actual events it depicts three-hour play about the Middle East peace process? It’s hardly a subject to get the pulse racing. And yet, JT Rogers’s new play Oslo, about the astonishing, behind-the-scenes negotiations that r...

…n return, it would get a series of measures designed to protect its security. That’s why the process is called land for peace. The problem is that Netanyahu has never believed in land for peace. His strategy has been to put up obstacles, create confusion and wait it out. But one...

… down and create a context more favorable for the kind of agreement he wanted. He shifted his attention to his original peacemaking priority: the Syrians. In an effort to remove a roadblock to even beginning serious talks, he offered the Americans what they would later call his “...

…tional engaging projects. This perspective is definitely pacifist. And by serving development and prosperity, it serves peace. China’s analysis needs to be studied. In the past, the East was the place where goods were born, and the West where they matured. Today, the West is sta...

…e International Energy Agency in Paris. He has also served with the U.S. Agency for International Development and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. Dr. Melby received his BA from Haverford College and his MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University (SAIS). He is a...

…tions unpalatable. In Egypt, Washington has set a red line for the Muslim Brotherhood leadership: it must adhere to the peace treaty with Israel. Everything else is negotiable. This week the Pentagon revealed that it would no longer be stationing two aircraft carriers in the Gul...

the substance of any real peace — could not simply be put off forever. Untangling them was getting harder, not easier. And we realised that only in an environment like Camp David — a “pressure cooker” was how I described it to Clinton, and to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albri...

reasonable and realistic leaders should have nothing to fear from Egypt, with which it has an enduring peace treaty. The situation with Syria may not be exactly the same, however, especially when the two countries are still officially in a state of war. The regime of Bashar Assa...