Peace is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Abraham, S. Daniel

Published by Newmarket Press, New York, 2006

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As new condition navy blue boards with silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Foreword by President Bill Clinton; Maps (Israel and Its Neighbors 1949-1967; Israel 2005; The West Bank and Gaza Strip 2005); Introduction; Epilogue: July 2005: As Israel Prepares to Leave Gaza; Acknowledgments; Appendix I: Key Figures; Appendix II: Wayne Owens 1937-2002; Appendix III: Major Events in Israeli and Palestinian History; Appendix IV: Speech by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Caesarea Conference June 30, 2005; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of color photographic plates and black-and-white maps. "When peace finally comes to the Middle East, it will be because of people like Dan Abraham." - President Bill Clinton. "For more than fifteen years, entrepreneur Dan Abraham, founder and former chairman of Slim-Fast Foods, chose to utilize his considerable resources to facilitate Mideast peace. Together with Utah Congressman Wayne Owens, Abraham made more than sixty trips to the Middle East between 1988 and 2002, meeting with Arab leaders Hosni Mubarak, Hafez Assad, Crown Prince (now King) Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah of Jordan, Abu Mazen, and Yasser Arafat, and Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon. Using his business experience with difficult negotiations, Abraham took an active behind-the-scenes role, setting up critical one-on-one meetings between key figures. He urged these leaders to articulate not what they wanted, but what they needed, to make peace, fostering significant advances in the peace process. Since Owens' untimely death in 2002, Abraham has continued to arrange peacemaking meetings on his own. Drawing from meeting transcripts, diary entries, and extensive handwritten notes, Abraham writes in the first person about these extraordinary, often private meetings, giving us rare "you are there" insight into historically significant events. In his pragmatic and hopeful book, he writes, "I am a great optimist, particularly about a region of the world that usually brings out people's most pessimistic inclinations - Israel and its neighbors." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 007795

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Title: Peace is Possible: Conversations with Arab ...

Publisher: Newmarket Press, New York

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition