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

Abraham, S. Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557047022 ISBN 13: 9781557047021

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2006

Synopsis

A first-hand personal account of American businessman and Slim Fast founder Danny Abraham's more than 15 years of peacemaking efforts in the Middle East and the reasons he believes peace is possible.

For more than fifteen years, entrepreneur Danny Abraham, founder and former chairman of Slim Fast, 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 to 2002, meeting with Arab leaders Hosni Mubarak, Hafez Assad, Crown Prince Abdullah, and Yasser Arafat, and Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, 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 inclinationsIsrael and its neighbors." Foreword by President Bill Clinton. 16 page color photo insert, maps, chronology, index.

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HardCover. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 256 Publisher: Newmarket For more than fifteen years. Entrepreneur Dan Aaham. Founder and former Chairman of Slim-Fast Foods chose to Obsolete Usual occurrence his considerable resources to facilitate Mideast Peace Together with Utah Congressman Wayne Owens. Aaham 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. Aaham 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...

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557047022
• ISBN 13: 9781557047021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216