Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov is Giancarlo Elia Valori Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Director of the Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution, and the Head of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. He is an expert of conflict management, resolution, negotiations and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is the author of many articles, and of five books: "The Israeli-Egyptian War of Attrition 1969-1970: A Case Study of Limited Local War "(1980), "Linkage Politics in the Middle East: Syria Between Domestic and External Conflict, 1961-197...