11. Afterword: Clinton’s Legacy Six months before his eight-year presidency ended in January 2001, President Bill Clinton finally confronted the issues that had for more than half a century been at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict—a conflict he thought he knew well and had all but finally resolved. In actuality, final resolution of the […]
CHRISTIAN ZIONISM/EVANGELICALS
12 Notes 5*INFO
Notes INTRODUCTION 1. Malcolm H. Kerr, America’s Middle East Policy: Kissinger, Carter and the Future, IPS Papers 14(E) (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1980), pp. 8–9. [BACK] 2. Ibid., p. 8. [BACK] 3. Ibid., p. 9. [BACK] 4. Avi Shlaim, “The Debate about 1948,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 27, no. 3 (August 1995): 287–304. [BACK] 5. Peter Theroux, Sandstorms: Days and Nights […]
10. The Pictures in Our Heads 5*INFO
10. The Pictures in Our Heads Political philosopher Walter Lippmann often commented that we are all captives of the pictures in our heads. People make mistakes, he once wrote, “because an important part of human behavior is reaction to the pictures in their heads.” Human behavior takes place in “a pseudo-environment,” a representation of what […]
9. George Bush 5*INFO
9. George Bush No Illusions George Bush took office in January 1989, during a period that in many ways was the most hopeful, in other ways the most difficult, in the more than forty-year history of U.S. involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Never had the Palestinians, strengthened and given political confidence by the intifada, been readier […]
8. Ronald Reagan 5*INFO
8. Ronald Reagan Missed Opportunities Ronald Reagan’s 1980s brought a quantum leap in efforts to promote Israel and delegitimize the Palestinians in the United States. The prominence the Palestinians had gained over the previous decade and particularly the attention paid to them by Jimmy Carter caused considerable alarm both in Israel and among Israeli supporters […]
7. Jimmy Carter 5*INFO
7. Jimmy Carter Making a Difference Jimmy Carter changed the vocabulary of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the United States and to a great extent changed the frame of reference for the Palestinian issue. By broaching the notion of giving the Palestinians a homeland, by trying to deal with the PLO, by recognizing the Palestinians as […]