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\"\"<\/a>Telling Our Story: Recent Essays on Zionism, the Middle East, and the Path to Peace Paperback<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ayelet Kahane <\/strong>and Batsheva Neuer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The story of Israel and Zionism has been hijacked, disfigured, and trampled upon. It has been deliberately replaced by a story about sinister ideologies and evil motivations. <\/span><\/p>\n

When this tale of evil becomes the reigning story, peace becomes ever less possible, since evil is not to be negotiated with, but defeated. If peace is ever to be made, the story of Israel and Zionism is to be told anew. In this book, Dr. Einat Wilf does just that, demonstrating in the process how the true telling of the story of Israel and Zionism opens the path to peace with the Palestinians and the entire Arab and Muslim world. In the book\u2019s opening chapter, \u201cTelling Our Story,\u201d Wilf provides a context, telling the story of the Jewish people\u2019s right to self-determination in their homeland and how through deliberate Jewish action \u2013 not foreign hand-outs or Holocaust-motivated guilt \u2013 the State of Israel was born. This story of the Zionist movement remains among the most inspiring dramas in human history: although dealt some of the worst cards in history, through force of vision, desire and work, the Jewish people returned to history as active agents and shaped a future in which they are not the victims of others.<\/span><\/p>\n

This story is crucial to understanding the importance of the Jewish state to the Jewish people, as well as in its broader ability to inspire people throughout the world. In chapter two, \u201cOn Why There Is No Peace,\u201d Wilf examines why decades after the establishment of the State of Israel conflict continues to persist with no end in sight. The core of her argument is that the requisite condition for any solution \u2013 whether it be a one-state or two-state solution \u2013 is for both sides of the conflict to recognize the equal rights of the other as collectives and individuals to all of the land, and the acceptance that neither can have the land in its entirety. As this requisite is absent \u2013 specifically on the Arab side \u2013 compromise, and thereby peace, has not been viable. In chapter three, \u201cOn What Israel Should Do,\u201d Wilf explores the steps Israel should take towards peace. Wilf argues that although peace may not be viable now, Israel should prepare for the hopeful eventuality of the creation of two states for two peoples between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River. Israel should do this by specifically delineating its eastern border \u2013 including the annexation of the large Jewish settlement blocks that are contiguous to the Green Line \u2013 and renouncing is territorial claims beyond that eastern border. Given the very real security issues that Israel faces, however, she should implement a policy of continued military occupation until she feels there is a partner for peace on the Palestinian side.<\/span><\/p>\n

This policy is one of \u201cyes to the occupation, no to the settlements,\u201d east of that border. Regarding Jerusalem, Wilf clarifies that the only place where controversy persists is in regard to the Old City. The status of the Old City will be determined through a final peace agreement, but the status of the overwhelming majority of Jerusalem can already be specified; and that final peace agreement, Wilf explains, would be in a much better position if the ambiguity regarding the Old City did not spill over into the issue of Jerusalem as a whole. In the concluding chapter, \u201cOn What the International Community Should Do,\u201d Wilf explores what roles and policies might be pursued by the international community. Foremost, however, Wilf posits that it is critical for the international community to understand that the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East, rests on serious issues that go to the core of matters of each other\u2019s sense of justice, history, and identity. Additionally, it is most important to bear in mind that Israelis, Palestinians, and Arabs are sovereign agents who need to determine their future for themselves and by themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

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About the Author
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\nDr. Einat Wilf is a leading intellectual and original thinker on matters of foreign policy, economics, education, and Israel and the Jewish people. She is considered one of Israel\u2019s most articulate representatives on the international stage. Her opinion articles are regularly published in international publications and she is frequently interviewed for television and radio programs around the world. She was a member of the Israeli Parliament from 2010-2013 on behalf of the Labor and Independence parties. Dr. Wilf has a BA in Government and Fine Arts from Harvard University, an MBA from INSEAD in France, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cambridge. Born and raised in Israel, Dr. Wilf served as an Intelligence Officer in the Israel Defense Forces. Dr. Wilf\u2019s past experiences include Chair of the Education, Sports and Culture Committee, Chair of the Knesset Sub-Committee for Israel and the Jewish People, and Member of the influential Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the 18th Knesset. She served as the Baye Foundation Adjunct Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Senior Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company. Dr. Wilf is the author of six books that explore key issues in Israeli society: \u201cMy Israel, Our Generation\u201d, \u201cBack to Basics: How to Save Israeli Education (at no additional cost)\u201c, \u201cIt\u2019s NOT the Electoral System, Stupid\u201d, and \u201cWinning the War of Words\u201d. Her recent two books are \u201cTelling Our Story\u201d – a collection of Wilf\u2019s essays on Israel, Zionism and the path to peace, and \u201cThe War of Return\u201d on the perpetuation of the Palestinian refugee issue.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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