In English

They were enemies, today the Israeli and the Jordanian Baruch Spiegel Mansour Abu Rashid have been friends for many years. Both look back on a high-ranking military career.

As "freedom fighters", they were presented in the spring in the Tagesspiegel. As Israel and Jordan after the Gulf War and the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1992 sought peace with one another, the generals  Baruch Spiegel and Mansour Abu Rashid met as negotiators by their governments under the UN flag on a bridge over the Yarmuk River, a tributary of the Jordan. Both led the negotiations that ultimately resulted in the 1994 peace agreement between Israel and Jordan.

Given the current tense situation in the Middle East, they will share their experiences, which could perhaps be a model for peace between Israelis and Palestinians and at the same time showing that it is possible also in the Middle East to establish peace between former enemies, and to live it.

Mansour Abu Rashid, a retired general, who was born in 1946 in Amman, studied at the Jordanian Military Academy and abroad. He was chief of intelligence and security adviser to the king. Today he is head of the Center for Peace and Development (ACPD)  in Amman which he had founded and is committed to the "Cross Border Corporation", a project funded by the FES Israeli-jordanischpalästinensisches project with cross-border activities between farmers, water experts and business people.

Retired General Baruch Spiegel, born in 1948 in a refugee camp in Italy, is the child of Holocaust survivors from Galicia. Actually, he wanted to study medicine, but he made after his first race in an elite unit in the Golan Heights finally as commander of the Golani Brigade in the Israeli Defence Forces career. Today he is a consultant of the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF) operates.

Moderator: Dr. Sylke Tempel, born in 1963 in Bayreuth, studied history, political science and Judaic studies. After her doctorate she was Middle East correspondent for the Berlin Center and is chief editor since 2008. She teaches politics at the Stanford Study, "International Politics". Numerous published books, most recently appeared "Freya von Moltke - A Life (2011) and" Israel. Travel through an old, new country "(2008).

Location:  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V., Rauchstr. 18, 10787 Berlin 

Registration: untill 25th Oktober loeva@dgap.org, or Fax: 030 – 25 04 20 31 91

Cost: 5,– € | erm. 3,– €

Organizer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik (DGAP), Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft Berlin und Potsdam