The Arab Center
Marwan Muasher was the first Jordanian Ambassador to Israel. He has been involved in the Middle East Peace
process since 1993, holding numerous positions in the Jordanian government.
This book explains in detail why the
two state solution is the only solution compatible
with the survival of Israel as a Jewish state.
This book is an excellent history from the inside of the Arab-Israeli
conflict of the past sixty years.
Muasher
makes the telling point that Germany, that was responsible under the Nazis for
launching a world war that killed tens of millions of people and committed
genocide on a massive scale, was occupied for 44 years. The Palestinians, on the other hand, whose
crimes are modest by any measure, have been occupied for 41 years and counting. There is a serious lack of
proportionality. However, if the
occupation continues, inevitably the crimes justifying it may rise to the
occasion in the form of nuclear armed Arab states.
The book provides hope for optimism
that a Middle East peace is not only necessary, but close at hand and
viable. Peace in the Middle East may be
the only way of reversing the world wide economic collapse that is currently in
progress. So, all things being equal,
the collapse of the United States’s financial system
is a plus for peace.