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Key to Peace
in the Middle east
t h e e U h o l d s t h e k e y to p e a c e i n t h e M i d d l e e a s t
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Contents
Acknowledgements and Credits
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Articles
Jan Wijenberg
Key to Peace in the Middle east
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Ludo Abicht
examination of the logical ethical treatise on
the Israeli-Palestine conflict
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A.A.M. van Agt
israel/Palestine: towards a binational state
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Leo Kwarten
the Ritual dance of Peace and the new Middle east
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Paul de Waart
international law as a way to peace between israel
and Palestine
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Jan Wijenberg
Key to Peace in the Middle east - a summary
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Biographical notes
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Acknowledgements
this publication was made possible by
the kind patronage of Mrs yetta Goelet.
the dutch quarterly magazine Civis
Mundi: Journal for Political Philosophy and
Culture dedicated Volume 47, issue 4,
published in october 2008, to obstacles
and opportunities for peace in the Mid-
dle east, under the title Key to Peace in
the Middle East. the editor-in-chief and
the authors graciously agreed to have
the articles translated and published in
this booklet. civis Mundi is published by
daMon B.V., Budel, the netherlands.
Credits
Photography
Mohammed omer, independent Pales-
tinian journalist in Gaza, Palestinian oc-
cupied territory.
Photograph on front cover:
Palestinian young man running from an Is-
raeli rocket attack, hitting a house in Gaza
City
Photograph on back cover:
Palestinian boy seen through wired bars in
the borderline between Egypt and Gaza
Translation
helen Gamble editorial services, noot-
dorp, the netherlands.
Printing
Robine, twello, the netherlands
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The Isreal Defence Forces take a Palestinian child into custody on the West Bank
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“And history’s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we
would never imagine their presence. Europe and the Middle East, the ‘West’ and the Arab World, are […]
inextricably entangled [...].
The European superpowers [during the First World War] were blind to so many of the realities that th