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04781aam a2200529 i 4500 001 1C7276288EF611ECB1103A7D2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220216010022 008 210729s2022 nyu 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021036846 020 $a 0063098113 020 $a 9780063098114 035 $a (OCoLC)1264174882 040 $a DGU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OJ4 $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ $a a------ $a f------ 082 00 $a 956.05/3 $2 23 100 1 $a Friedman, David Melech, $e author. 245 10 $a Sledgehammer : $b how breaking with the past brought peace to the Middle East / $c David Friedman. 246 30 $a How breaking with the past brought peace to the Middle East 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Broadside Books, $c 2022. 300 $a x, 258 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Prologue : Sledgehammer-Birth of a Metaphor -- Donald and Me -- Israel and Me -- The Trump Campaign -- Confirmation Controversy -- Battling the State Department -- Trump in Jerusalem -- The Daunting Challenges of Daily Life -- "If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem" -- How to Build an Embassy in Three Months for Half a Million Bucks -- Countering False Narratives -- Saving Unknown Lives -- Undividing Jerusalem -- Peace : From the Outside In -- The Storms before the Storm -- A Vision for Peace -- The Abraham Accords -- Peace Progresses -- Cleaning Up -- Epilogue: Peace Is Possible -- Appendix : The Abraham Accords Declaration. 520 $a "For over a century, the Middle East has been locked in a series of bloody struggles. In 2020, the United States brokered an historic series of peace deals between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors, the first in a generation. The Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Kosovo and Morocco. The accords were the result of painstaking, behind-the-scenes work by a small team with no prior diplomatic experience, including Ambassador David Friedman. Sledgehammer is the full story of the accord-its origin and how it was successfully achieved. In the past, the accepted wisdom on Middle Eastern diplomacy was that extensive prior experience and detailed knowledge of the region's history and culture were necessary to negotiate the details that are the foundational framework of treaties. But in truth, Friedman explains, both sides played on that accepted wisdom to stall-each hoping to achieve a deal better for their side further down the road. As the prospects for the President's Vision for Peace between Israel and the Palestinians was growing dimmer due to the intransigence of the Palestinians, the chaos of Israeli politics, and the unforeseen worldwide pandemic, David Friedman and his team found themselves in a position to negotiate five historic peace agreements-not between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but between Israel and four of its Arab neighbors along with Kosovo. Friedman realized that a new future was possible now, not at some nebulous future point, and that the United States needed to find a way to facilitate it or lose out forever. Friedman takes us across the globe and back, from the Oval Office to the highest echelons of power in the Middle East and puts us at the table during the intense negotiations that led to this historic breakthrough. The inside story of arguably the greatest achievement of the Trump Administration, Sledgehammer is an important, inspiring story of the hard but hopeful work necessary to bring long overdue-and lasting-peace to one of the most turbulent and tragic regions of the globe"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Friedman, David Melech. 650 0 $a Arab-Israeli conflict $y 1993- $x Peace. 651 0 $a Israel $x Foreign relations $z Arab countries. 651 0 $a Arab countries $x Foreign relations $z Israel. 651 0 $a Israel $x Foreign relations $z Islamic countries. 651 0 $a Islamic countries $x Foreign relations $z Israel. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 2017-2021. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Israel. 651 0 $a Israel $x Foreign relations $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Arab countries. 651 0 $a Arab countries $x Foreign relations $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Islamic countries. 651 0 $a Islamic countries $x Foreign relations $z United States. 941 $a 5 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710060342.0 952 $l XSPE157 $d 20220906015126.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220324010158.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220302013507.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220216010038.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1C7276288EF611ECB1103A7D2DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search