Peace Is Possible: Conversations With Arab And Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present - Couverture rigide

Abraham, S. Daniel; Clinton, The Honorable Bill

 
9781557047021: Peace Is Possible: Conversations With Arab And Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1557047022 ISBN 13 : 9781557047021
Editeur : William Morrow, 2006

Synopsis

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.”

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À propos de l?auteur

S. Daniel Abraham, a leading American entrepreneur and pioneer in both the pharmaceutical and diet food business, is the creator of Slim-Fast Foods, the most successful diet product in history. A well-known philanthropist, his gift to the Mayo Clinic served to create the Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center. He is also the founder of the Center for Middle Peace and Economic Cooperation in Washington, D.C. A native of New York, he now lives in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Éditeur
William Morrow
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1557047022
ISBN 13 
9781557047021
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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