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Abstract
This article offers a response to Alon Ben-Meir's (2022) proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation from the perspective of a former Israeli diplomat whose roles included Director General of the Foreign Ministry of Israel and Israel's ambassador to South Africa. A long-time champion of a campaign to promote the recognition of a Palestinian state by European governments, in this piece Ambassador (ret.) Dr. Liel unpacks his personal and professional reasoning as to why he remains wary and hesitant of confederative solutions even if, on the face of it, they may be practically attainable.
本文从一名前以色列外交官的角度回应了阿隆·本·梅尔(Alon Ben Meir,2022)关于建立以色列-巴勒斯坦-约旦联邦的提议,这位外交官的角色包括以色列外交部总干事和以色列驻南非大使。作为促进欧洲各国政府承认巴勒斯坦国运动的长期倡导者,Liel大使(退役)博士在这篇文章中阐述了他个人和专业的理由,解释了为什么他对邦联解决方案仍然保持谨慎和犹豫,即使从表面上看,这些解决方案实际上是可以实现的。
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