Cynthia Ozick
"The Oslo Syndrome may be the most important manifesto of our generation, an indispensable analysis that explains the present and may yet save the future."
Fred Frankel, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
"That Arafat would honor what he undertook to do in the Oslo accords is but one false belief referenced ..."
Yossi Klein Halevi, Senior Fellow, the Shalem Center, and Israel correspondent for The New Republic.
"The Oslo Syndrome is an indispensable contribution to understanding the roots of the Oslo process…"
Professor Efraim Karsh, Head, Mediterranean Studies Programme, King's College, University of London.
"this hugely interesting, highly informed and very timely work is a must read ..."
Ruth Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
"Ken Levin explains why so many Jews and Israelis delude themselves about the malevolent intentions of their enemies..."
Disengagement Delusion
In his article, "Disengagement delusion," Frank Gaffney discusses delusional elements in the Israeli leadership's claims regarding the gains to be had through further unilateral withdrawals. He also talks of analogous delusional thinking among those in America who are calling for American withdrawal from Iraq. Gaffney cites The Oslo Syndrome as offering an incisive explanation for such delusions
Today, even more than is usually the case, Israel is the Free World's "canary in the mine shaft." Its voters are poised to vote for a policy approach their American counterparts are being tempted to embrace in the months ahead. Call it the "disengagement delusion."
Read the whole thing here.
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