{"id":3950,"date":"2014-04-09T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:58:03","slug":"epalestine-le-monde-diplomatique-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2014\/04\/epalestine-le-monde-diplomatique-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Monde diplomatique: If Kerry fails, what then? (By Sam Bahour and Tony Klug)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le Monde diplomatique<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive 8 April 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If Kerry fails, what then?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Sam Bahour and Tony Klug<\/p>\n<p>Suppose the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, fails to cajole the Israeli and Palestinian leaders into finally ending their conflict. What would happen next?<\/p>\n<p>READ AT: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/If-Kerry-fails\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/If-Kerry-fails<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American business consultant in Ramallah and serves as a policy adviser to <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/\" rel=\"external\">Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network<\/a>. Tony Klug is a veteran Middle East analyst and a special advisor to the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk\/\" rel=\"external\">Oxford Research Group<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">ePalestine Blog:<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><u title=\"\">http:\/\/www. epalestine.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Everything about this list:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><u title=\"\">http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/<span title=\"\">epalestine<\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"mailto:epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><span title=\"\">epalestine<\/span>-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To subscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"mailto:epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><span title=\"\">epalestine<\/span>-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Monde diplomatique Exclusive 8 April 2014 If Kerry fails, what then? by Sam Bahour and Tony Klug Suppose the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, fails to cajole the Israeli and Palestinian leaders into finally ending their conflict. What would happen next? READ AT: http:\/\/bit.ly\/If-Kerry-fails Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American business consultant in Ramallah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[40,421,158],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sams-writings","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-john-kerry","tag-occupied-territories"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6023,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}