The failure to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict for many years has often been attributed in significant part to the absence of trust in the sincerity of the other side and, more specifically, to the recalcitrant nature of the opponent. Analyses of past proposals and actual negotiations have pointed out missed opportunities, possibly the result of misperceptions or misunderstandings. Recent archival research, publications, and interviews regarding the Israeli protagonists reveal that actual deception, as distinct from ‘misperception’, may have been at play. The article examines this phenomenon as it has appeared since 1967 in six instances of Israeli government dealings with its own public and with the US or the international community, even in recent months, due primarily to an unwillingness to withdraw from the Occupied Territories or agree to enter serious negotiations for ending the conflict with the Palestinians.
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Ian S. Lustick
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Shifra Mescheloff
in any case the Chief Rabbinate prohibited entry and prayer on the Temple Mount. Goren described this as a dangerous deception that must be refuted (1992: 22). During Israel’s successful negotiation of a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994, the
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Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb
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Duress and Upwardly Mobile Youth in the Biography of a Young Entrepreneur in Enugu
Inge Ligtvoet
social media feeds every day. Corruption is omnipresent, visible for everyone and internalized by all. It refers to the “whole range of social behaviour in which various forms of morally questionable deception enable the achievement of wealth, power, or
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Francesco Colona and Tessa Diphoorn
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Iver B. Neumann
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The Absent Concept of Policing and Its Substitutes in Israeli Military Doctrine
Ofra Ben-Ishai
( Sollie 2010 ). Critical theorists viewed these efforts as deception designed to win legitimacy by giving policing a non-violent image ( Lederach 2007 ). According to this approach, policing was naturalized as being free of political connotations and
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Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand
Steve Kwok-Leung Chan
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