Q&A: Prof. Rose answers your emails

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - The Problem
Page 3 - US Support

Dangerous Liaisons is a personal journey by Professor Jacqueline Rose investigating the relationship between the conflict in Israel and one of the main countries she believes holds the key to the crisis – America. How much responsibility does the United States bear for Israel’s current militant stance?

In the making of this documentary, she has travelled from the war-torn West Bank to the American halls of power in Congress seeking to find a reason why peace in the Middle East is so elusive.

Along her way, she met and spoke with many of the Israeli crisis' leading figures about her concerns, including former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; outspoken US foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky; and architect of the Oslo peace accords, Yossi Beilin.

Professor Rose is a British Jew who’s had a long running interest in the Israeli crisis ever since she first visited the country twenty years ago. On that occasion, after a chance meeting with a young Palestinian, she visited Ramallah and then spent a few weeks living with Bedouin Arabs in the Sinai.

“My first visit to Israel was a chilling political education in three weeks flat, which changed everything I felt about the world. I have been distressed by the constant failure of the [Israeli] government to move towards a just settlement and when the opportunity came up for me to return to Israel I seized it.”

Until now, Rose has not been back to Israel since her visit first in 1980. She believes the situation is now much more serious than it was twenty years ago, but finds hope in the fact that she is not alone with her feelings in the country.

“I never went back before now. It felt like I was giving assent to something I shouldn’t have, but after twenty years this time it is different. The criticisms are more justified today, but I like country more now because of the other voices there.”

Q&A: Prof. Rose answers your emails

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - The Problem
Page 3 - US Support