Herzliya Conference/2000
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| Date | December 2000 |
| Location | Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel |
| Description | Spooky get together in Herzliya, Israel. "If you weren't there, it showed you weren't in the major league..." |
The First Herzliya Conference took place in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in December 2000.[1]
Uzi Arad said of the conference, which he chaired, that "If you weren't there, it showed you weren't in the major league." An abstract of the conference, entitled The Balance of National Strength and Security in Israel: Policy Directions was published in March 2001 and presented to Israeli President Moshe Katsav. Ha'aretz described the document as "quite astounding":
- The core of Israel's political and defense establishment has come out with a document that corresponds, in some of its recommendations and in general tone, with the views of the far right. This is mainly true with respect to the importance attached to the demographic threat to Jewish Israel posed by the Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.[2]
Journalist Jonathan Cook argued similarly that the conference represented a sea-change in Israeli politics:
- All the Palestinians between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan were lumped together and reclassified in demographic terms — as an ethnic enemy poised to achieve numerical dominance.[3]
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- ↑ The First Conference - 2000, herzliyaconference.org, accessed 9 February 2008.
- ↑ A VERY MOVING SCENARIO, Ha'aretz, 23 March 2001.
- ↑ Jonathan Cook, Herzliya Conference reveals Israeli plans after disengagement, Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2006.
