What is the best Middle East for Israel? The real one, as it is now, the new one that Shimon Peres has spoken of, or the right one, in which Israel’s existence can enjoy more security and peace? As the Middle East looks today, it is a danger for many peoples, not only for Israel. And that is precisely the topic of a conference in Jerusalem.
As a reminder: Israel’s former foreign minister Shimon Peres coined the term “New Middle East” in the optimistic era of the Oslo process. It was also the title of his 1993 book. The result was new and different, but not in the positive sense imagined: instead there was great bloodshed. According to the left-wing Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, fewer than a hundred Israelis and 1,593 Palestinians were killed during the first Intifada (1987-1993) up until the start of the Oslo negotiations. Then during the “peace years” of the second Intifada (2000 – 2003), 4,944 Palestinians and 1,011 Israelis were killed! During the Oslo “peace years,” the number of victims rose steadily!
Ironically, the...
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