American Jewish Altruism in Support of International Humanitari-an Intervention and Kosovo Peace-building
American Jewish Altruism in Support of International Humanitari-an Intervention and Kosovo Peace-building

Summary/Abstract: At the end of 20th century, parts of Europe get caught again by xenophobia’s which were hidden under the rug of the Cold War. Balkans was again at the heart of eruptions of nationalistic ideas and hegemonist aspirations. In resolving the last unsettled Kosovo case in the Balkans, west democra-cies corrected the mistake made at the beginning of the same century. In this direction gave input the Jewish community of USA. “We need to come out in defense of the defenseless victims ... can-not let people like Milosevic to continue killing men, women and children. We had to do this earlier, but not later or now”, said Elie Wiesel, the most prominent Jewish Nobel Prize winner, in a meeting with Holocaust survivors and veterans. This was not the only voice of the Jewish members in defense of Kosovo Albanians. A significant number of elite American-Jewish prominent politicians and diplomats, senior U.S. administration, from public life, have been cautious in pursuit of developments in Kosovo before the war. Altruism within Jewish elite influenced or advised U.S. policy makers on the necessity of intervention in Ko-sovo, to prevent scenarios prepared by the Serbian regime to de-albanize Kosovo. They decided and implemented the diplomacy of dynamic actions in stopping the repetition of the similarities of holocaust within the same century. What prompted this perfectly organized community in the U.S., with distinctive culture and other religious affiliations to people of Kosovo to support them during exterminating circumstances? Which were the driving factors on influencing the policy of most pow-erful state in the world in support of Albanians? This paper aims to illuminate some of the answers on the raised question as well as analyze the activities of most prominent American-Jewish personal-ities, some of their philanthropic actions that are associated with emotions, their principles and be-liefs to prevent human suffering and exodus of Kosovo Albanians, similar to their holocaust but with different actors.

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