Daniel Schueftan

Dan Schueftan was an advisor to Israel's National Security Council{{cite web|title=The New Walls and Fences:Consequences for Israel and Palestine |author=Gershon Baskin & Sharon Rosenberg |publisher=Centre for European Policy Studies |date=June 2003 |url=http://se2.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?serviceID=7&fileid=22B6999D-7E00-BC3C-6458-832C409C4DD8&lng=en }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and to former prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin{{cite web|title=Empowering a terroristocracy in the name of 'peace'?|author=Jeff Jacoby|publisher=Jewish World Review|date=31 March 2003|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby033103.asp}} and Ariel Sharon.{{cite web|title='Disengagement' a Logical Step for Israel, Says Researcher|author=Chad Groening|publisher=American Family Association from AgapePress|date=12 February 2004|access-date=22 March 2007|url=http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/afa/122004g.asp|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928080859/http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/afa/122004g.asp|archivedate=28 September 2007}}

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 history.{{cite web|title=The Seventh Annual Herzliya Conference Speakers 2007|publisher=Institute for Policy and Strategy|access-date=18 March 2007|url=http://www.herzliyaconference.org/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?CategoryID=226&ArticleID=1599}}

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.{{cite journal|title=Book Review of Korah Hahafrada: Yisrael Ve Harashut Hafalestinit, Disengagement: Israel and the Palestinian Authority|author=Meyrav Wurmser|journal=Middle East Quarterly|date=Fall 2002|url=http://www.meforum.org/article/1488}} The book is cited as having formed the basis for the concept of separation from the Palestinians.{{cite web|title=The New Walls and Fences: Consequences for Israel and Palestine |author1=Gershon Baskin |author2=Sharon Rosenberg |publisher=Centre for European Policy Studies |date=June 2003 |url=http://se2.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?serviceID=7&fileid=22B6999D-7E00-BC3C-6458-832C409C4DD8&lng=en }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|title=Gaza: The Doomed Experiment (Reprinted at the website of the Australian/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council|author=Leslie Susser|publisher=The Jerusalem Report|date=19 September 2005|url=http://www.aijac.org.au/updates/Sep-05/130905.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070903114026/http://aijac.org.au/updates/Sep-05/130905.html|archivedate=3 September 2007}}{{cite journal|title=Today's Arab Israelis, Tomorrow's Israel: Why "Separation" Can't Be the Answer for Peace|author=Eric Rozenman|publisher=Hoover Institution|journal=Policy Review|date=April–May 2001|access-date=17 March 2007|url=http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3478092.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207212408/http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3478092.html|archivedate=7 February 2007}}

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. And within a decade, we will unilaterally repartition Jerusalem 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, 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."

• "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){{Cite web|url=https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2009/11/06/dan-schueftan-senior-israeli-arab-analyst-advisor-to-generals-and-prime-ministers-and-racist/|title = Dan Schueftan: Senior Israeli Arab Analyst, Confidant of Generals and Prime Ministers, and Arab Hater|date = 6 November 2009}}

• "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){{cite web|title=From The Shalem Center Website: "Dan Schueftan"|accessdate=20 March 2007|url=http://www.shalemcenter.org.il/about/?aid=32&aid=03d1ef9ffc3539d25a5b9f79a4f765be&did=10|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070730080840/http://www.shalemcenter.org.il/about/?aid=32&aid=03d1ef9ffc3539d25a5b9f79a4f765be&did=10|archivedate=30 July 2007}}
• "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)

• "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

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