Opinion Editorials, August 2010

Conflict Without End? 

Epic history of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

 a New Book By Alan Hart

VOLUME 3

Conflict Without End? 

Alan Hart's epic history of

the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

ISBN: 978-0932863690   392 pp.  
$21.95   2010

Clarity Press

Commentary/Reviews

“In this extraordinary book, Alan Hart has succeeded in elucidating for us the immediate
and long term dangers involved in the unconditional Western support for Zionism and its
oppressive policies against the Palestinians. The author provides us with a chilling
exposure of how this embrace developed and continues to endanger the Jewish existence
and fuels the anti-Semitism that refuses to disappear. Motivated by a genuine concern for
peace in Israel and Palestine and beyond in the world at large, Alan Hart has written not
only a strong indictment of Zionism, based on both research and personal experience, but
also provided us with a charter for a better future.”

­ ILAN PAPPE
Leading Israeli revisionist historican, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

"I hope that all who are concerned about the troubles of the Middle East will read this book.
It is immensely readable and a magnificent piece of work which reflects Alan Hart’s close
relationship with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. We are in terrible trouble in the Middle
East. The book explains how we got here and how we could move forward. The tragedy is
hurting Palestinians, Israelis and the rest of the world. All who wish to engage in finding a
way forward will be helped by reading this book."

­ CLARE SHORT, MP-UK and International Development Secretary in Tony Blair's
government until her resignation over Iraq

"Alan Hart's new books about Zionism and about the Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Arab, and
now the Israeli-Muslim conflicts are, taken together, remarkably important and timely.    His
unique experiences and personal relationships make it possible for him to connect, and
maybe even more notably to correct, the historical dots in a uniquely comprehensive way.  
Doing so as a seasoned journalist as well as a passionate advocate of true peace and
real justice makes Hart's trilogy of books covering 1948 to the present nothing less than
extraordinary.  Taken together they represent a  monumental accomplishment of epic
proportions.  If only responsible government officials around the world, especially in
Washington, would read and ponder these books, take profound note of Hart's
conclusions, and even at this very late date act before it is completely too late.."

- Mark Bruzonsky
MiddleEast.org, founder
World Jewish Congress, first Washington Representative

Hart’s readable account of history, his obviously erudite analysis and his ability in bringing
the factual conflict to life on the page ensures the reader's interest is unwavering
throughout. His passion and empathy with both sides is apparent. For the Jews, the
‘unspeakable fear’ of another Holocaust due to Zionist manipulation and tyranny; and for
the Arabs and Muslims, the anger and humiliation they are feeling every day that Palestine
is being torn apart.

­ Samira Quraishy, researcher, Islamic Human Rights Commission

"Alan Hart in his chillingly revealing and very readable account of the intrigues of the Zionist
political development has made a tremendously valuable contribution ."

­ RABBI AHRON COHEN

"These two volumes are a vital exposition of Zionist history and its interface with diplomacy
and the Israel-Arab conflict, up until the assassination of President Kennedy.  Alan Hart
promises another volume, perhaps two, and one looks forward to their publication.... an
essential understanding of what happened in the struggle for Israel-Palestine and of the
role of Zionism in this sad story."   

REUEL AMDUR, The Canadian Charger, January 27, 2010

SYNOPSIS

This is the third volume in the series ZIONISM, THE REAL ENEMY OF THE
JEWS, an epic journey through the propaganda lies and the documented truth
of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over
Palestine that became Israel. Conflict Without End? takes the story from the
1967 war and the creation of a Greater Israel right up to the present and the
question: Will President Obama be allowed to deliver an acceptable amount of
justice for the Palestinians in order to achieve peace for all—and if he can’t
deliver, is a final round of Zionist ethnic cleansing inevitable?

The compromising of Security Council integrity, author Alan Hart argues, is the
key to understanding everything that has happened since the 1967 war. By
allowing Israel to violate international law and settle the Occupied Territories,
the major powers, led by America, effectively created two sets of rules for the
behaviour of nations—one for all the nations of the world minus Israel and the
other exclusively for it.

Hart enables readers to grasp how PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat risked
everything, including his life, to persuade first his leadership colleagues and
then his people to accept his policy of compromise and peace on terms which
any rational government and people in Israel would have accepted with relief.

This third volume also includes insights Hart gained while acting as the linkman
in a secret exploratory dialogue between Arafat and Israel’s Shimon Peres
who, at the time, was the leader of the main opposition Labour Party, hoping to
deny the Likud’s Menachem Begin a second term in office. The story of this
mediation effort and of Sharon’s blood oath reveals why making peace may be
a mission impossible for any Israeli leader, without sufficient outside pressure.

Only an American President, Hart concludes, has the leverage required to
cause enough Israelis to be serious about peace on terms most Arabs and
Muslims everywhere could accept. In an Epilogue titled “Is Peace Possible?”
Hart suggests the changes that must be made in America if any occupant of
the White House is ever to be free to make the peace.

AUTHOR

Alan Hart is a former BBC Panorama and ITN Middle East correspondent with a vast first-
hand knowledge of the subject. He knew, and interviewed, many of the main players in the
Israel-Palestine conflict on all sides (Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat and other PLO leaders,
Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres, Nasser, King Hussein of Jordan, George Habash, King
Feisal - the list is long). He also participated at a leadership level in the secret politics of
the search for peace in the Middle East (as an intermediary between Arafat and Peres
when it was presumed Peres was headed for leadership) His first book Arafat, Terrorist or
Peacemaker? was published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1984 and subsequently in several
updated editions over a decade. In the early 1970s, his independent production company
produced the first ever documentary on true dimensions of global poverty and its
implications for all. The film, Five Minutes To Midnight, had its world premiere at the
opening of the 7th Special Session of the UN General Assembly (called to discuss the
need for a New World Economic Order), and was shown on television in many Western
countries, was versioned for schools and became a standard work of reference. For that
effort Alan was credited with having played a leading role in getting the North-South issue
on to the agenda for public debate.

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