Peace Train to Nowhere: Profs on Israeli-Palestinian 'Negotiations'

Peace Train to Nowhere: Profs on Israeli-Palestinian ‘Negotiations’

Daniel Kurtzer

Reporting for Campus Watch, Andrew Harrod covered a recent Washington, DC, panel discussion on the vagaries of the Arab-Israeli “peace process” featuring Princeton University’s Daniel Kurtzer. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, panelists blamed Israel for the lack of progress and diverted blame from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Harrod’s article appears today at Jihad Watch:

“What can you tell” an audience “that they haven’t already heard” at yet “another conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict?” asked Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) Board Chairman Omar Kader at a recent Washington, DC, panel. About fifty attendees, who enjoyed coffee, juice, and pastries at the Phoenix Park Hotel, encountered typical anti-Israeli animus and sterile discussion of a “peace process” stillborn amidst abiding Palestinian hatred for Israel.

Former ambassador and Princeton University professor of Middle Eastern policy studies Daniel C. Kurtzer advocated an uninspiring “process that keeps the process going” for largely hopeless Israeli-Palestinian negotiations so that “situations on the ground” do not “fester.” . . . He praised Secretary of State John Kerry’s “brilliant diplomacy” and the 1991 Madrid Conference leading to the dead-end Oslo Accords, which he labeled a “critical breakthrough in the Middle East,” further illustrating his disconnect from an all-too violent reality.

To read the entire article, please click here.

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.