Ratna's Review on Israel, Zionism and Peace

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Post details: Europe's Role in Promoting Peace.

2005-05-09

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Europe's Role in Promoting Peace.

Europe wants to play a major role in the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, and during the Oslo peace process it did real efforts to this purpose and facilitated secret negotiations between Israel and the PLO. Both Arafat and Rabin and Peres were given the Nobel peace price for their historic approach. Lots of money was spent to build up the Palestinian Authority, and Palestinian police was trained with European help. I think these were genuine efforts inspirited by a genuine interest in Middle East peace. After the peace process collapsed and the second intifada started, Europe put this mainly at the door of Israel however, and kept confidence in Arafat's will to peace, against all evidence like his double-speaking and his role in the intifada.

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Ratna's Review contains my thoughts on the Israel - Palestine conflict, the Jewish right to self determination (aka Zionism) and the Palestinian right to self determination, and especially the involvement of Europe with the conflict in the light of it's own history. I am Ratna Pelle, an academic from the Netherlands who has been active in several leftist movements for peace, environment and third world. I am neither Jewish nor Palestinian nor Israeli nor Arab.

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