America’s Many Failed Attempts at Mideast Peace
By Michael Oren | Tuesday, January 2, 2007 | The Boston Globe
Michael Oren is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, is the author of the forthcoming “Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, from 1776 to the Present.” Here he presents a capsule version of that book, with a timeline of American peace efforts in the region. His conclusion is a dismal one: peace in the Middle East is not likely, with or without American involvement. American mediation is destined to fail unless local leaders have the power and the willingness to work systematically and patiently – for years if necessary – to craft a fair and sustainable negotiated peace. He cites the example of the 1979 peace treaty – in which the Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt by Israel in exchange for peace – an arrangement sustained and driven forward by the joint efforts of two such leaders, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, to convey what a process of this kind might entail…BS
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