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Brief
Biography
Alan
Hart, a young 63, has been engaged with events in the Middle
East and their global consequences and terrifying implications
- the possibility of a Clash of Civilisations, Judeo-Christian
v Islamic, and, along the way, another great turning against
the Jews - for nearly 40 years:
-
As a correspondent for ITN's News At Ten and the BBC's
Panorama programme (covering wars and conflicts wherever
they were taking place in the world).
- As
a researcher and author. (His first book Arafat, Terrorist
or Peacemaker? was published by Sidgwick & Jackson
in 1984 and subsequently in several updated editions over
a decade).
- As
a participant at leadership level, working to a Security Council
background briefing, in the covert diplomacy of the search
for peace.
Alan
Hart thus brings to the pages of his latest book, Zionism:
The Real Enemy of the Jews, and to the debating chamber,
a deep understanding of why, really, the Countdown to Armageddon
is on and how it can be stopped.
He's
been to war with the Israelis and the Arabs but the learning
experience he values most, and which he believes gave him rare
insight, came from his one-to-one private conversations over
the years with many leaders on both sides of the conflict. With,
for example, Golda Meir, Mother Israel, and Yasser Arafat, Father
Palestine. The significance of these private conversations was
that they enabled Alan to be aware of the truth of what leaders
really believed and feared as opposed to what they said in public
for propaganda and myth-sustaining purposes.
It
was because of his special relationships with leaders on both
sides that, in 1980, Alan found himself sucked into the covert
diplomacy of conflict resolution. President Carter had been
prevented by Prime Minister Begin from involving the PLO in
the peace process, an opening made possible because Arafat had
signalled, secretly and seriously, that he was ready to make
peace with an Israel inside more or less its pre-1967 borders.
Carter was in despair and said, in private, that events had
once again proved that it was impossible to advance the peace
process by institutional diplomacy (because of the pork-barrel
nature of American politics and the Zionist lobby's awesome
influence). It was then suggested to AH that he should undertake
an unofficial, covert diplomatic mission to get an exploratory
dialogue going between Arafat and Peres, with AH initially the
linkman. The assumption at the time was that Peres would win
Israel's next election and deny Begin a second term…. The
initiative was funded by a small number of wealthy British Jews
led by Marcus Sieff (the Chairman of Marks and Spencer) with
the approval of Lord Victor Rothschild…. It happened and
enough progress was made to get Peres and Arafat into public
dialogue in the event of Peres winning the 1981 election. Unfortunately,
and against all expectations, he did not. (Full story of
this initiative in Chapter 35 - The Blood Oath).
In
the course of this mission AH learned two things. The first
was the truth about the miracle of Arafat's leadership - his
success in persuading his side (most of it) to be ready for
unthinkable compromise with Israel for peace. (Which was why
Alan wrote his first book). The second was why it is difficult
to impossible for any Israeli prime minister, even a rational,
well-motivated one, to make peace on any terms the Palestinians
can accept.
A
decade later, Alan's initiative became the Oslo process, which
might have delivered peace if Prime Minister Rabin had not been
assassinated by a gut-Zionist.
Alan
has long believed that what peacemaking needs above all else
is some TRUTH-TELLING, about many things but, especially,
the difference between Zionist mythology and real history, and,
the difference between Jews and Judaism on the one hand and
Zionists and Zionism on the other. (The Zionism of the title
and substance of Alan's latest book is, of course, political
Zionism or Jewish nationalism as the creating and sustaining
force of the Zionist state, not what could be called the spiritual
Zionism of Judaism).
The author will make himself available for public speaking engagements
and debates (and book signings if required). If you wish to
organise an event please Contact
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