(BESA Center-Bar-Ilan University) Shmuel Sandler - One of the foremost criticisms of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statecraft is that he has refrained from advancing a dynamic foreign policy or what is termed a "peace initiative." But an alternative reading of the situation might lead to the conclusion that a protective or defensive diplomatic strategy is the right strategy in light of Israel's bitter experiences with Middle East peace processes. Israeli "initiatives" of the past twenty years have produced such dismal results that any purported Israeli diplomatic initiative holds more pitfalls than promise. The writer is a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Bar-Ilan University.
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