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10/15
1999

26 Detroit Jewish News

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ashid Khalidi, a prominent
Arab-American scholar and
participant in the 1991
Middle East peace talks in
Madrid, will give his views on
"Prospects for Peace" Monday, Oct. 18,
at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
A frequent commentator on
Palestinian issues, Khalidi is a profes-
sor of Middle Eastern history at the
University of Chicago and the author
of Palestinian Identity.
In a recent interview with the Jewish
News, Khalidi spoke about the state of
Palestinian-Israeli relations. The con-
versation has been abridged for length.
What are the prospects for peace,
as you see them?
"If I were to be asked about the
broader prospects of peace in the
Middle East, I think they're actually
generally rather good. But I'm not so
optimistic about the prospects for a
Palestinian-Israeli settlement in the
short term. My reason for not being
optimistic doesn't only have to do
with Barak; some has to do with
Arafat, some has to do with the
United States, and some has to do
with the magnitude of the problems
that have to be resolved.
"People have been fighting about
them, tens of thousands of people
have died. We're not going to solve
them in nine, and six, and three
months. It's just not going to happen.
"And that's not pessimism: that's
sound, sensible, pragmatic, realistic
logic."
And we could expect you to make
this point in your lecture?
"It's one of the central things I'm
going to say. You know, this is not a
matter of blame — except maybe of
people who are making over-optimistic
scenarios. But this is just a matter of ...
expectations, what should be expected."

Sam England can be reached at

(248) 354-6060, ext. 263, or by e-mail
at sengland@thejewishnews.com

Rashid Khalidi

When you speak publicly, do you
expect confrontation?
"It's nothing unusual to me. I
expect to be disagreed with. I'm giving
my views. I already expect people to
have different views, so, you know, it's
fine. Most of the time I find that peo-
ple who disagree with me disagree
with me in a perfectly civil fashion,
and that what they have to say is at
least worth consideration.
"Some of the knee-jerk hostility I
used to find long ago in this country,
to any point of view that is not sort of
conventionally pro-Israeli, in recent
years [instead] there's been a much
more nuanced reception."
So, overall, do you think that
intelligent debate is feasible?
"Oh, yeah. The situation is much
better in terms of discussion of these
issues. I mean, look, you couldn't talk
about Palestinians 30 years ago. It
simply was not acceptable. It was
considered a mortal challenge to the
very existence of the Jewish state to
say 'Palestinian,' 'Palestine.' That's
much rarer today. The people who