A New Pathway to World Peace
From American Empire to First Global Nation
by Ted Becker and Brian Polkinghorn
A New Pathway to World Peace
From American Empire to First Global Nation
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Table of Contents
Uses, Directions and Side Effects of the New State Solution
Uses : This remedy can relieve stress and despair due to long-term American and Israeli policies in the Middle East. Fully digested, it can relieve high anxiety over the increasing threat of wars with Iran, Russia and/or China. Properly taken, it may even lessen regrets over past American foreign policies and worry over the future of the American economy.
Use in place of the Two State Solution which has been removed from the market. Use in place of the One State Solution, to which many Jewish Israelis are allergic.
The New State Solution will lead to much better outcomes than the No solution, which will create a severe vacuum which will worsen the present conditions and their symptoms.
Directions for Use : Do not take this remedy all at once. It needs to be taken steadily, but slowly, so that it all seeps in. You must take all of it or else aggravated symptoms of the two state solution, one state solution, or no solution may reoccur.
Side Effects : This remedy may overstimulate the brain into discarding comfortable but debilitating political thoughts and habits. Digesting too much new knowledge creates discomfort. Rethinking dogmatic beliefs and prejudices hurts even more and might even cause nausea or symptoms of Tourettes Syndrome (e.g., eye rolling, throwing the book across the room, outbursts of profanity).
If any of these occur, you need to finish the book .
The Authors
Ted Becker (B.A., J.D., Rutgers; M.A., University of Maryland; Ph.D., Northwestern University.) Becker is the author of books in the fields of Law and Politics, American Government, Global Geo-Politics, and Conflict Resolution. He is the former chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii and also at Auburn University. He has also been the Distinguished Visiting Professor at California State at Los Angeles and Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), as well as The Walter Meyer Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the Alma Holladay Professor of Civic and Community Engagement Emeritus at Auburn University where he presently teaches. Dr. Becker is also a professional mediator who was co-founder of the first university based community mediation center in Hawaii. He also was the Executive Coordinator of Honolulu Neighborhood Mediation Network for the City and County of Honolulu and was Vice President of the Asia-Pacific Organization of Mediators (APOM), of which he was a co-founder.
Brian Polkinghorn (B.A., University of Maryland; M.S., George Mason University; M.A. Ph.D., Syracuse University). The coauthor of several books and many articles on conflict resolution, Dr. Polkinghorn is a Distinguished Professor and Program Director in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution and the Executive Director of the Bosserman Center for Conflict Resolution at Salisbury University. In 2009 , he was a Senior American Fulbright Scholar to Israel, at the Evens Program on International Conflict Resolution and Mediation at Tel Aviv University helping launch the M.A. degree there, where he continues to teach regularly. For many years he has worked as a mediator in that region in particular with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian scientists, scholars and policy makers to help plan and manage major water project issues. Dr. Polkinghorn has also helped establish graduate conflict resolution programs in Central America, throughout Africa and parts of Asia and was a third party neutral at the end of the war in Nepal. Currently, he is a Fulbright Ambassador and working with UNESCO.
Acknowledgments
T here is a small core of dedicated people whose technical assistance and comments have contributed a great deal to seeing this unusual idea come to print. Patricia Lantz is not only a patient and superb copyeditor but first class reality checker. Over the course of several drafts her attention to details and keen insights helped take a slightly organized idea and shape it into what is now the focus of the book. Matthew Correia also copyedited the book and his fresh eyes fixed mistakes and along the way also detected thoughts and ideas that were in need to clarification. Sara Cukier read the last draft of the book and proceeded to construct the index. Sarah, Patricia and Matthew have made the book easier to read and, we think, enhanced the core focus which is to ask the reader to imagine a lot of unusual what if scenarios designed to take an old and vexing problem and to think about it in a new and perhaps creative way.
chapter 1
Introducing Ourselves : How Two Americans Became Interested in Israel, Conflict Resolution and This Practical Solution.
CAUTION!!!
N either of the authors of this short book are considered experts on The Middle East and its politics or its ugly spasms of wars over great spans of time. On the other hand, thank God for that. We see our relative ignorance on all the ancient minutiae of the internecine hatreds and regular massacres in that pocket of the world as an advantage we have. After all, look what all the American, European and Middle East experts from all cultures, nations and sects hath wrought: a colossal geo-political accident that keeps on exploding and spewing wreckage all over the world.
Sorry to say, but they have certainly helped to create the yawning abyss of pain, deprivation, degradation, suffering and plagues of death throughout that entire region... whether they be of Western or Islamic expertise. Worse still, there is the myriad of American experts and American special interests who have prodded American government to voluntarily plunge deeper into this whirling maelstrom and who seem, to us laymen, to be totally bewitched and bewildered as to how to conceive an honorable and peaceful solution.
We believe that most Americans are just as weary, as are we, of all these formal and informal, official and unofficial wars in that part of the world in which the United States is a heavy-duty participant, if not principal instigator... no matter how many spokesmen and spin-masters reassure everyone that the U.S. military are really there to protect us. Just this century, wars started in that region by the U.S.A. have cost us in the many trillions of dollars, and as far as can be seen at this moment, and as the world is told by the Pentagon, there is no light at the end of a lengthening tunnel. And there is always a new and more deadly enemy.
