Suggested Answers to the First Short Quiz

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Question 1

Has Stuart Eizenstat written a masterful book (with a forward by Henry Kissinger and a preface by James Baker III) comprising (A) 328 pages of incredible detail in negotiating every major agreement of the modern era, and (B) another 36 pages describing 12 essential principles for successful negotiations?

Answer 1

Absolutely!!!

Question 2

Was Stuart Eizenstat intimately involved in several of the negotiations he describes – having served in five positions requiring U.S. Senate confirmation including Ambassador to the European Union?

Answer 2

Yes.

Question 3

When not serving the U.S. Government, has Stuart Eizenstat been (and is he still) a member of Covington & Burling – Washington DC’s most prestigious law firm?

Answer 3

Yes.

Question 4

As a life-long friend of Israel and head of many U.S. national Jewish organizations, has Stuart Eizenstat also spearheaded several successful negotiations to get the German Government to support destitute Jewish victims of The Holocaust, including the Russian-Jewish survivors of the Siege of Leningrad?

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

Is “The Art of Diplomacy” a de facto application to serve as head of a U.S. negotiating team to facilitate a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians?

Answer 5

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 6

Is “The Art of Diplomacy” also a de facto blueprint to serve as a guide for any other head of a U.S. negotiating team to facilitate a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians?

Answer 6

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!


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Hurdle A – THREE Already-Failed “Two State” Solutions

Question 7

Is this a daunting, if not impossible task, because THREE other “two state” solutions have already failed?

Answer 7

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 8

Was the first FAILED “two state” solution all the way back in 1948 when the United Nations Resolution 181 partitioned Palestine into what the Resolution called a “Jewish State” and an “Arab State” based on who owned what even though the Jewish State and Arab State resembled a “checker board” of land ownership - with Israel accepting U.N. Resolution 181 and immediately being invaded by Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon?

Answer 8

Yes.

Question 9

Was the second FAILED “two state” solution engineered by President Clinton in 2000 which was (A) widely reported to comprise an agreement between Israel and Yassir Arafat, Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) which at that time governed both Gaza and the West Bank, BUT (B) widely reported to be renounced by Yasir Arafat upon his return from Camp David because he had not prepared his people for peace with Israel and he was likely to be assassinated?

Answer 9

(A) Yes.
(B) Yes.

Question 10

Was the third FAILED “two state” solution the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 which has resulted in virtually constant attacks ever since, eventually culminating in the current Israel/Gaza War?

Answer 10

Yes.

Though some "wise acres" might call this only a “one-and-a-half state” solution.


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Hurdle B – No Recognition of Israel’s “Right to Exist’

Question 11

Is THE BASIC PROBLEM that Palestinians do not recognize Israel’s right to exist?

Answer 11

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 12

Is this based on “THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE” that the United Nations in 1948 stole land from the Palestinians and gave it to the Jews?

Answer 12

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 13

Is this a lie because in 1948 the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) simply tabulated who owned what as a result of the policy of the Arab Empire and Ottoman Empire since 738 A.D. that everyone including Jews were welcome to purchase land?

Answer 13

Absolutely!!!

Question 14

And that UNSCOP (which did not include any of the great powers) ascertained that Palestine contained only 1,077,000 Muslims out of a total population of 1,846,000 – or 58.3%?

Answer 14

Yes.


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Hurdle C – Palestinians “Brain Washed” From The Cradle Since 1948

Question 15

And is THE-EVEN-MORE-BASIC PROBLEM that since 1948, Palestinians have been “brain washed” since the cradle to believe THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE???

Answer 15

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!


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Hurdle D – The Palestinian “Right of Return”

Question 16

BTW, are there other complicating factors such as the famous “Right of Return”?

Answer 16

Yes.

Question 17

Vis-à-vis Palestinians, is the “right of return” based on a U.N. Proclamation giving such a right to Palestinians who lived in what is now Israel but became refugees as a result of the 1948 war?

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 18

HOWEVER, does the U.N. Proclamation limit the right to “refugees wishing…to live at peace with their neighbors”?

Answer 18

Absolutely – even though everyone seems to overlook it!!!

Question 19

Is the U.N. requirement that the "refugees wishing… to live at peace with their neighbors” an INDIVIDUAL or a GROUP requirement?

Answer 19

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 20

If it is a GROUP requirement, doesn’t the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel’s “right to exist” and the disaster of the 2005 unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza indicate that, AS A GROUP, Palestinians do NOT want “to live at peace with their neighbors”?

Answer 20

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 21

BTW, were there more Jewish refugees displaced from the Arab countries as a result of the 1948 War than Palestinian refugees who were displaced from what became Israel? Have these Jewish refugees gone elsewhere, in effect vanishing?

Answer 21

Yes and Yes.

Question 22

Also BTW, does the U.N. administer the Palestinian Refugees through a separate agency (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees or UNRWA) while grouping all other refugees around the world in a different but single agency?

Answer 22

Yes.

Question 23

Although there were only between 520 thousand and a million Palestinian refugees in 1948, are there about 6 million today scattered across three countries, the West Bank and Gaza?

Answer 23

Yes.

Question 24

Is Israel’s population, according to the CIA’s “World Factbook” (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/ ... nd-society) 9,407,617 – which is 73.5% Jewish, 21.2% Arab and 5.4% other?

Answer 24

Yes.

Question 25

Doesn’t simple math indicate that Israel only has 9,407,617 * 73.5% or 6,914,598 Jews?

Answer 25

Obviously.

Question 26

And doesn’t simple math indicate that if 6 million Palestinian refugees were added to Israel’s 9,407,617 * 21.2% (or 1,994,415) Arab population, the Arabs population would out-number the Jewish population by approximately 1.1 million?

Answer 26

Obviously.


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Hurdle E – The Notorious Obama/Biden “Iran Nuclear Deal”

Question 27

Did Pres. Obama conclude on 7/14/2015 his beloved “Iran Nuclear Deal” which he did not deign to send to the U.S. Senate for ratification like any other treaty?

Answer 27

Yes – one wonders how he graduated from law school if he couldn’t pass his course in Constitutional Law!!!

Question 28

Are the most glaring inadequacies of the “Iran Nuclear Deal” (as noted in our “action campaigns”) that –

(A) It guarantees Iran nuclear weapons by 2030; and

(B) It does NOT provide for “anytime anywhere” inspections; and

(C) It does NOT impede at all Iran’s development of nuclear-capable short-range and inter-continental ballistic missiles (which are typically launched with such slogans painted on their sides as “Death to Israel” and “Death to the Big Satan” aka the United States – BTW, Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has often, even in the wake of the JCPOA, led crowds in chants of “Death to America”).

Answer 28

(A) Yes.
(B) Yes.
(C) Yes.

Question 29

Did Pres. Trump take the U.S. out of the UNCONSTITUTIONAL (i.e., Unratified) Iran Nuclear Deal? Like any other treaty, does International Law recognize that UNLIKE CONTRACTS WHICH ARE BINDING, treaties are only valid so long as the parties continue to agree?

Answer 29

Yes and Yes.

Question 30

On 1/20/2020 (Pres. Biden’s Inauguration Day), did we send him by FedEd Overnight a plea noting the 3 glaring problems outlined in Q-28 and imploring him NOT to re-enter the Iran Nuclear Deal unless they were corrected?

Answer 30

Yes.

Question 31

Did Pres. Biden nonetheless GROVEL to be let back into the Iran Nuclear Deal? Did his GROVELING even take the form of designating Russian President Putin as our intermediary because Ayatollah Khamenei refused to deal directly with the U.S.?

Answer 31

Yes and Yes.

Question 32

Was Pres. Biden’s GROVELING unsuccessful?

Answer 32

Yes, it was unsuccessful.

Question 33

Did Pres. Trump, in addition to taking the U.S. out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, impose such sanctions on Iran, especially its ability to export oil & gas, that Iran was essentially bankrupt when Pres. Trump left office? Did this mean Iran was unable to fund any of their anti-Israel proxies such as Hamas in Gaza?

Answer 33

Yes and Yes.

Question 34

Did Pres. Biden remove all of the sanctions on Iran and even find ingenious ways to provide them with additional cash? Did this enable Iran once again to fund all of their anti-Israel proxies such as Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon?

Answer 34

Yes and Yes.

Question 35

BTW, is Pres. Trump’s support of Israel against Iran the reason for Iran’s widely-reported on-going attempt to assassinate him and his close associates such as former Sec’y of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo?

Answer 35

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 36

Are we likely to discover that Iran’s policy to assassinate Pres. Trump is embedded in fatwās issued by Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei?

Answer 36

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 37

Are we likely to discover that if our fondest (but probably irrelevant) hope that Ayatollah Khamenei who is 85 will not last much longer, his fatwās to assassinate Pres. Trump et al. will outlive him?

Answer 37

Absolutely!!!

Question 38

After all, didn’t the Brits in negotiating to restore diplomatic relations upon the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 have rejected their request for the revocation of the fatwā to assassinate Salman Rushdie for his “Satanic Verses” (Salmon Rushdie had fled to the U.K. where he became a citizen)?

Answer 38

Yes.

Question 39

Was Iran’s rejection based on the Islamic Law that only the issuer of a fatwā can revoke it and the issuer was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who was now dead?

Answer 39

Yes.

Question 40

Was Salman Rushdie stabbed and nearly killed on 8/12/2022 as a result of the fatwā?

Answer 40

Yes.

Question 41

But back on topic, why should Hamas and the Palestinians give up their life-long “brain washed” dream of “throwing all Israelis into the sea”?

Answer 41

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 42

After all, aren’t they on the winning (i.e., Iranian) side?

Answer 42

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 43

And even if they don’t succeed for the foreseeable future, haven’t they been assured by Ayatollah Khamenei and even non-Iranian Islamic Theologians that Islamic Martyrs and 72 close relatives by-pass a truly-fearsome Judgment Day and go directly to Heaven?

Answer 43

Yes – which is why if you ever see a Muslim killed by the Israelis, his relatives will appear to be rejoicing rather than mourning.


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Hurdle F – Pres. Obama’s “Turning A Deaf Ear” to our 10/14/2009 Plea for a Palestinian “Marshall Plan”

Question 44

On 10/14/2009, did we implore Pres. Obama to provide a “Marshall Plan” for the Palestinians so that the world would never have to face its present predicament?

Answer 44

Yes.

Question 45

Did Pres. Obama, as was his wont, shun our plea?

Answer 45

Unfortunately!!!

Question 46

On 12/16/2023, did we re-direct our plea for a Palestinian “Marshall Plan” to Pres. Biden?

Answer 46

Yes.

Question 47

Did Pres. Biden, as is his wont, shun our plea?

Answer 47

Unfortunately!!!


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Hurdle G – The Jewish Bible Prophecies That Israel Will Be Destroyed By Iran

Question 48

Does the Jewish Bible (aka Christian Old Testament) prophecy in Ezekial, Jeremiah and Daniel that Israel will be destroyed by “The Bear of the North”?

Answer 48

Yes.

Question 49

Did Israeli Theologians believe historically that “The Bear of the North” was a reference to the Soviet Union?

Answer 49

Yes.

Question 50

HOWEVER, when Pres. Jimmy Carter replaced the Shah of Iran with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, did the Israeli Theologians shift their belief that Persia (aka Iran) was the “Bear of the North” that would destroy Israel?

Answer 50

Yes.

Question 51

Did they note that Tehran is north of Jerusalem (even though it is even further east than north)?

Answer 51

Yes.

Question 52

As an apparently-devout Jew, does Stuart Eizenstat believe the Jewish Bible prophecies? Or does he interpret them away?

Answer 52

God only knows (besides Stuart).


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The Gold Medal For Clearing ALL The Hurdles

Question 53

If Stuart Eizenstat can overcome all these hurdles, does he not only deserve a Nobel Peace Prize BUT ALSO TO BE RANKED WITH MOSES COMING DOWN MOUNT SINAI TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE???

Answer 53

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!