Switzerland and the United States endeavoured to get the parties to reach an agreement through pre-negotiations that failed in 1984. ... Pre-negotiation in Switzerland played an important role of defining the parties' boundaries and persuaded them to move to the negotiation table in the hope of re-establishing successful diplomacy without sovereignty discussions. ...
ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE I. Overview: As Kenneth Waltz put it, states operate in a "self-help" system in which threats to national security are omnipresent. Small states, in particular, have difficulties meeting challenges from powerful aggressors, since such states are by definition limited in their...
"(5) In 1897 the first Zionist Congress was held in Switzerland, which issued the Basle Programme on the colonization of Palestine and the establishment of the World Zionist Organization (WZO). (8) "A few Zionist immigrants had already started arriving in the area before 1897. ...
