Title: Analysis of the Arab- Israeli conflict
Review: The dean of Orientalists Bernard Lewis does not discourse on the broader civilizational conflict question, but rather confines his remarks here to the Israeli- Arab and more specifically Israeli- Palestinian Arab problem. He analyzes the failure of the Oslo process rightly pinning the blame of terrorist Arafat who could not give up doing what he knew to do best,terrorism. Lewis traces the overall development of the conflict and suggests that there can be no serious peace - process until the Palestinians have different leadership.Lewis however wrongly states that the Israeli 'settlement policy' began with the Likud's coming to power. He too it seems to me goes far but not far enough in recognizing how deep Palestinian and Arab rejection of Israel is.In general I would have preferred to see Lewis discoursing on broader civilizational issues.
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