Breakthrough: Israel in a Changing WorldGad Yaacobi - Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations, Minister in Israeli Governments, and accomplished writer - draws the reader into a world in flux, fraught with opportunities and dangers: The potential for peace and regional cooperation in the Middle East versus the danger fundamentalist terrorism that threatens to sent the region back to the Dark Ages; the New World Disorder created by the spread of ethnic, religious, and national conflicts, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in world where democracy still finds itself in the minority; and the challenge - prompted by the emergence a vigorous, prosperous Israel on the road to peace - to build a new, more profound Israel-Diaspora partnership that goes beyond merely responding existential crises. |
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Page 19 - ENDS to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples...
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