Dan Schueftan (; also Dan Shiftan)
is an Israeli academic and chairman of the National Security Studies Center at the
University of Haifa
The University of Haifa (, ) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963 as a branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation as an inde ...
. He also serves as a senior lecturer at Haifa University's School of
Political Sciences
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. He has taught at the
Israel Defense Force's
National Security College and the IDF's Command and Staff College.
Career, views
Dan Schueftan was an advisor to
Israel's National Security Council and to former prime ministers
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin (; , ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the prime minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977, and from 1992 until Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, his ass ...
and
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon ( ; also known by his diminutive Arik, ; 26 February 192811 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the prime minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006.
Born in Kfar Malal in Mandatory Palestin ...
.
He has served as a consultant to Israeli decision-makers and the top echelon of Israel's foreign policy and defense establishments, also briefing European and American political leaders and senior officers. He is the author of several books on contemporary
Middle Eastern
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The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...
history.
Schueftan is credited with having advanced the concept of "unilateral disengagement", or "unilateral separation", as articulated in his 1999 book, ''Disengagement: Israel and the Palestinian Entity''. The book is cited as having formed the basis for the concept of separation from the Palestinians.
In Schueftan's view,
Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza is a first step in a wider historical process. He told ''
The Jerusalem Report'' in September 2005 that: "I can even pin dates on it. In 2007 or 2008 we will have another major disengagement in the
West Bank
The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
. And within a decade, we will unilaterally repartition
Jerusalem
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along lines we will unilaterally select ... What Israelis have understood — and this is the underlying feature of the disengagement — is that we need to leave
Gaza and
Nablus
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, not because it will bring peace, but because there will be perpetual terror. We need to leave Gaza and Nablus because Israel with them is weaker than Israel without them."
Quotes
* "The Israeli public wants to be completely cut off from the Palestinians, and as a result nobody can be prime minister without going in this direction. It's not even an option if they want to stay in power." (2004)
* "The best thing that has happened to the Arabs is that they agreed to be occupied." (2009)
Published works
Books
* ''"Palestinians in Israel — the Arab Minority and the Jewish State"''. Tel Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 2011 (Hebrew)
* ''"Disengagement: Israel and the Palestinian Entity"'' (in Hebrew ''Korah Hahafrada: Yisrael Ve Harashut Hafalestinit''). Tel Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 1999 (Hebrew)
* ''"Attrition: Egypt's Post War Political Strategy 1967-1970"''. Tel Aviv: Ma'arakhot/Misrad Ha-Bitahon, 1989 (Hebrew)
* ''"A Jordanian Option — Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians"''. Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibuts Ha-Meuhad, 1986 (Hebrew)
Articles
* "Voice of Palestine: The New Ideology of Israeli Arabs". ''
Azure'' (Winter 2003)
* "High Fences Make Good Neighbors — Israel's Integration in 'The Emerging Mediterranean Culture'". ''The Emergence of a New Mediterranean Culture: Maghreb-Mashriq-Israel'', ed. Wolfgang Freund, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Pub. Inc., 2000, pp. 37–47
* "The Unique Nature of the War from the Arab Perspective". ''The Yom Kippur War — A Reappraisal'', eds. Chaim Opaz and
Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, Jerusalem: The Leonard Davis Institute, 1999, pp. 123–139 (Hebrew)
* "Jordan's 'Israeli Option'". ''Jordan in the Middle East 1948-1988 - The Making of a Pivotal State'', eds. Joseph Nevo and Ilan Pappe, London: Frank Cass & Co, 1994, pp. 254–282
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli disengagement from Gaza
Academic staff of the University of Haifa
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University