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elusional. That is how
Dr. Kenneth Levin, a
clinical instructor of psy-
chiatry at Harvard Medical School,
describes those who believe Israel
can make peace with Palestinians
and her Arab and Muslim neigh-
bors by making concessions.
Levin, author of The Oslo
Syndrome: Delusions of a People
Under Siege, brought his straight-
forward, but less-than-hopeful
message, to more than 100 persons
attending a Zionist Organization
of America (Z0A) luncheon on
March 27 at the Max M. Fisher
Federation Building in Bloomfield
Township. In fact, the only hopeful
note he struck
is the hope that
Israelis, and Jews
in general, will
wake-up and
understand that
peace is much •
more dependent
on change in the
Arab and Muslim
worlds than any-
Dr. Levin
thing Israel does
or doesn't do.
Levin thinks it should have
been crystal clear that the 1993
Oslo Accords signed by PLO leader
Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin would lead
to disaster. He says "the calls for
jihad, the rhetoric of incitement
and the campaign of terror" made
it "predictable that the effort would
fail and bring greater bloodshed."
As early as 1996, Levin was putting
Oslo supporters on the couch and
analyzing why they were "delu-
sional."
He discarded theories that Israeli
leaders were naive, didn't have the
information to make an informed
decision or were caught up in a
euphoria that clouded their minds.
Rather, Levin argues that Israelis
embrace the dictates of their
attackers," saying it is extremely
common for people under siege to
do exactly that. He referenced cen-
turies of Jewish diaspora history
as well as political infighting in the
early days of the modern Zionist
movement to make his point.

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