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The Arab world \u2018has too much history and not enough geography\u2019.<\/p>\n

Savour that vivid phrase as the essence of Bob Bowker\u2019s fine memoir of life as an Australian entranced by a Middle East that is crammed full of \u2018memories and mythologies\u2019.<\/p>\n

Bowker is the \u2018dean\u2019 of an exceptional group of Australian diplomats who dedicated their careers to understanding the region. The dean description is from Nick Warner, a Canberra wise owl of foreign policy, defence and intelligence, who says Bowker throws much light \u2018on the history of our relationship with the Middle East, where we have gone wrong and right, and what we should do now\u2019.<\/p>\n

The book title gives a taste, in several senses: Tomorrow there will be apricots: an Australian diplomat in the Arab world.<\/em><\/a> Bowker explains that the apricot prophecy is a Syrian saying similar to the scoffing English expression, \u2018Pigs might fly.\u2019<\/p>\n

The hope for apricots, he writes, \u2018captures an unquenchable, droll optimism which, together with the deep appreciation of culture and hospitality, ranks highly among the virtues that define what it means to be Arab. It also reflects an abiding scepticism towards the pretensions of those in positions of authority.\u2019\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Bowker offers a two-part book in 300 pages. The first half traces his career as a Middle East specialist in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which he joined as a diplomatic cadet in 1971. The second part, titled \u2018Reflections\u2019, is an analysis of the big issues confronting the region.<\/p>\n

The two-in-one package offers a fine blend of the personal and the policy, describing a near-50-year journey: 37 years with DFAT and then 12 years as an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments and an academic at the Australian National University.<\/p>\n

\u2018Being an Australian diplomat in the Arab world was more than a career: it was an adventure,\u2019 Bowker writes. \u2018In many ways it was my life.\u2019<\/p>\n

He notes how former prime minister John Howard labelled himself a cricket \u2018tragic\u2019 because he was tragically in love with cricket. Bowker embraces the hopelessly-in-love thought, titling the first half of the book \u2018The career of a Middle East tragic\u2019. It\u2019s notable that the book starts with that light-hearted reference to Howard, because one of the great policy fights of Bowker\u2019s career was Howard\u2019s shifting of Australian policy on Palestinian self-determination to lean towards Israel. The diplomat notes he was \u2018trumped by the Prime Minister\u2019 and \u2018went down in flames\u2019.<\/p>\n

A great scene in this flameout has Bowker locked in a shouting match with the prime minister\u2019s foreign policy adviser at the annual conference of the Zionist Federation. Howard was sitting only metres away, preparing to address the conference dinner.<\/p>\n

The breach is an example of Bowker\u2019s observation that the policy choices the Middle East has to live with are between bad and much worse.<\/p>\n

Tragically in love with the Middle East in all its tragic complications, Bowker offers great yarns, finely told. He has an ear for the telling quote and the eye for a good scene.<\/p>\n

Heading off for his first overseas post as a third secretary, only seven months after joining the department, he records the three pieces of advice given him in the conversation that amounted to his consular \u2018training\u2019: \u2018Never take possession of a corpse. Never take possession of a mad woman. Use your common sense. And that was it.\u2019<\/p>\n

At his second post in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, his struggle learning Arabic is illustrated by his regular visit to a roadside stall: \u2018I later realised that when I thought I was asking, in terrible Arabic, for a freshly cooked chicken, I was actually asking for a fresh wife. The stall owner didn\u2019t seem to mind.\u2019<\/p>\n

Bowker\u2019s \u2018colloquial Levantine Arabic\u2019 had many uses beyond talking to taxi drivers. To impose some ceremonial pain on Sudan\u2019s president for atrocities by his tribal proxies in Darfur, the ambassador gave \u2018my speech on presentation of my credentials in Arabic\u2019.<\/p>\n

In a gem of a chapter titled \u2018Touring Tobruk by moonlight\u2019, Bowker captures Libya\u2019s \u2018blend of chaos and impenetrability under the Ghaddafi regime\u2019 by describing his scouting trip, as the non-resident ambassador, for a prospective visit by the Australian defence minister to a war cemetery.<\/p>\n

Two Libyan minders drive him from Benghazi in a car that \u2018sounded very sick indeed\u2019 to tour a range of war cemeteries\u2014British, French and German\u2014but can\u2019t find the Australian site until the moon is out. At the end, the minders have an animated discussion about the report they must file \u2018on why the ambassador chap had been scoping out the port area and surrounds of Tobruk, especially the high ground overlooking the harbour, quizzing the local about the layout of the urban area, and doing so in execrable Arabic\u2019.<\/p>\n

When they got back to Benghazi at 0130, one of the minders \u2018shook my hands and planted kisses on both my cheeks. When you are kissed by a Libyan security official, you know it is time to go home.\u2019<\/p>\n

Writing of his time in Syria in the 1970s, Bowker recounts a local quip: \u2018Saudi Arabia exports oil, Iraq exports dates, Egypt exports jokes and Syria exports trouble.\u2019 The three-line description of then-president Hafez al-Assad is a miniature masterpiece of disdain: \u2018His smile was like moonlight on a tombstone\u2019; Assad had a \u2018penchant for delivering historical lectures\u2019 and dominated meetings with \u2018his awe-inspiring bladder control\u2019.<\/p>\n

Bowker\u2019s sad conclusion is that the Assad family\u2014Hafez and now his son Bashar\u2014has become a regime that outlasted the country. The bedrock of Bashar\u2019s rule is its brutality, he writes, and father and son always avoided \u2018questions about the appropriate relationship in Syria between state and society\u2019.<\/p>\n

In his reflections, Bowker considers the department that made his career, lamenting how the role of Australia\u2019s diplomats in Canberra has changed, \u2018and not for the better\u2019.<\/p>\n

DFAT, he argues, gives priority to trade and consular crisis management ahead of the research and thinking needed for effective foreign policy planning and advocacy. Policy is \u2018created in ministerial offices, with DFAT seen more as an implementing agency for those outcomes. This is a deeply problematic direction for any government, or government department, to take.\u2019<\/p>\n

DFAT no longer debates with itself and the rest of Canberra through dispatches and cables: \u2018The final decade or two of my time in the department saw a shift to reporting by cable that was prone to be concise rather than nuanced. It was directed in its brevity towards immediate briefing needs, rather than the evaluation of trends and their consequences for Australian interests.\u2019 Under the Howard government, he notes, the lengthy dispatch from a post became a thing of the past: \u2018By the time I retired it had become almost unthinkable to reflect on broader issues, let along to challenge policy settings, in cable traffic.\u2019<\/p>\n

Bowker tackles three core questions in his reflections:<\/p>\n

1. \u2018How do you build peace between two peoples\u2014Israelis and Palestinians\u2014with compelling national rights, human rights and historical narratives, but who have a clear imbalance of power?\u2019<\/p>\n

2. How does one connect the present, the past and the politics of Palestinian identity? This is an intellectual who 20 years ago wrote the book Palestinian refugees: mythology, identity and the search for peace<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> As a diplomat, he offers the answer (\u2018if there is one\u2019) of negotiating on interests, because beliefs are \u2018organic, structural and fundamentally non-negotiable\u2019.<\/p>\n

3. How does the Arab world confront its demographic fate (a Middle East population of 724 million people by 2050) and its economic and social challenges while preserving its Arab and Islamic identity? \u2018None of the current leaderships of the major Arab states and Iran have answers to the problems of legitimacy and governance,\u2019 Bowker writes. His fear is that governments will \u2018grow more authoritarian, transactional and violent in their instincts and behaviour\u2019. Defending privilege and predictability, rulers have found that repression works for them, arguing that \u2018freedom is more likely to produce chaos and division rather than bread and social justice\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Arab outlook, Bowker observes, feels like being on the bridge of the Titanic<\/em> smelling the ice. It took the Titanic<\/em> a long time to sink, though, and the modern Arab world has no way to stop the drivers of change, which are \u2018generational and societal as well as political\u2019.<\/p>\n

On the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict, Bowker declares that the two-state approach pursued since the 1990s \u2018is dead\u2019. He pointedly calls it a two-state \u2018approach\u2019 because no solution is in sight.<\/p>\n

If the two-state approach is mired in fundamental conundrum, he argues, the path to justice is by \u2018building a foundation for Palestinian rights and dignity among Israelis<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n

Israel can facilitate a new, more positive future for Palestinians and Israelis, he says, without raising existential questions for Israel: \u2018The absence of sovereignty is a legitimate grievance for Palestinians, but in practice it is the absence of dignity and economic security that matter much more.\u2019<\/p>\n

If the two-state option is dead, as Bowker avers, then Palestine\u2019s dream of independence must fade. As The Economist <\/em>wrote recently, the Palestinian diaspora has \u2018begun to call for a one-state solution<\/a>, where Jews and Arabs between the Jordan rivers and the Mediterranean would live together in a single democratic state\u2014and where Arabs would have a slender overall majority\u2019.<\/p>\n

For Israel and the Arab world, demography should meet democracy, and history must reconcile with geography.<\/p>\n

In a piece for The Strategist <\/em>two years ago, Bowker wrote that \u2018the convenient fable of a two-state solution\u2019<\/a> has to be challenged: \u2018A one-state approach would require mobilising political support for a fundamental rearticulation of the political, security and social apparatus and identity of Israel.\u2019<\/p>\n

Bowker concludes that the fun and frustrations of his life as a Middle East tragic have forced acceptance of key realities.<\/p>\n

Middle East policy is not a morality play, he writes. Expediency shapes decisions: \u2018The logic of strategy is not always consistent with the logic of politics.\u2019<\/p>\n

Diabolic complexity rules. The nature of the Middle East is for problems to linger and become more complex, Bowker writes: \u2018We must accept that views, interests and values within Arab societies are more likely to differ from our own: any apparent synchronicity of views should be cause for caution, as well as celebration.\u2019<\/p>\n

The final sentence of this tragic\u2019s meditation on his life\u2019s works reads: \u2018And, despite almost 50 years of exposure to the Arab world, I remained free of tribal delusions, except where Collingwood is concerned.\u2019<\/p>\n

Ah, the Melbourne conundrum of the Collingwood Football Club\u2014the one passion running through this fine book that (in the tribal view of this reviewer) does not bend towards truth and logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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