Leading scholar, Middle East analyst Barry Rubin on Rabbi Kaufman's show, August 27

Barry Rubin, recognized as one of the leading authorities on the politics of the Middle East and particularly of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship, will be the guest on Rabbi Kaufman's internet radio show, The Whole Megillah, August 27 from 2-4 pm Central on www.macsworldlive.com.

Send prospective questions to dkaufman@aol.com and tune in via computer or smart phone on Thursday.

What the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is really about (4)

[T]he Arab-Israeli conflict... has a source, and it is the refusal to acknowledge that source - rather than any failure to "engage" - that is the main reason for the failure of decades of peacemaking. ...

[T]he engine of the conflict is the Arab refusal to accept Jewish history, peoplehood or sovereignty anywhere in the Land of Israel.

[T]he Arabs will not end the conflict... so long as they still have hopes that Israel will become delegitimized and will weaken and disappear.

-- Saul Singer, Interesting Times: The power of truth, August 13, 2009

What the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is really about (3)

[T]he Palestinians, through their rejection of the UN Partition Plan, refused to recognize the Jewish state and embarked on a war to destroy it. This is, after all, the root of the conflict.

Indeed, the Palestinian narrative is based on the rejection of the existence of a Jewish nation state in any part of the territory they call Palestine.... The Palestinians fought the Jewish state, and if they truly and sincerely wish to forge peace, they must be willing to come to terms with the Jewish state, and to do so explicitly, without stuttering.

-- Shlomo Aveneri, The Palestinian position is important, August 20, 2009

What the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is really about (2)

"This conflict is actually about accepting Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people in this part of the world. The Palestinian media should be asked to "lower the tone" and start relating to Israel as a potential peace partner and not as an alien body that needs to be uprooted from the Middle East."

from How to Solve the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Khaled Abu Toameh, August 11, 2009

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What the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is really about

Ya'acov Lozowick: "The lines of discussion are indeed becoming ever more clear, even if the team at the White House doesn’t see it. The issue is the right of the Jews to sovereignty in their ancestral homeland. Not the right of the Palestinians; that has already been accepted by any fair minded person. It’s the right of the Jews which is being discussed, evaluated, and in many cases rejected. This is what the Jews need firmly to keep in mind."


Shmuel Rosner: " It is obvious that a solution [to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict] cannot be realized before there is a change in the Palestinian position and the Palestinians accept Israel's right to exist in peace and security as a Jewish state. The reason the Palestinians refuse to accept this is because for them this ins not a territorial dispute, but an existential conflict. The media's failure to report this most basic point, the evidence of it, and the implications of it, creates a dangerously misleading portrayal of the situation and prospects for its its resolution."

Today on Rabbi Kaufman's - The Whole Megillah, we will discuss Jerusalem, the Future of the Peace Process in light of the Fatah Elections and Policies, the Yale Press banning the publishing of the cartoons of Mohammed in a book about the cartoon...s and much, much more. Listen today from 2-4 pm Central on www.macsworldlive.com.