Preventing Palestine

Author : Seth Anziska
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691183985

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On the fortieth anniversary of the Camp David Accords, a groundbreaking new history that shows how Egyptian-Israeli peace ensured lasting Palestinian statelessness For seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace treaty with Egypt that is widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. Yet the Palestinians—the would-be beneficiaries of a vision for a comprehensive regional settlement that led to the Camp David Accords in 1978—remain stateless to this day. How and why Palestinian statelessness persists are the central questions of Seth Anziska’s groundbreaking book, which explores the complex legacy of the agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter. Based on newly declassified international sources, Preventing Palestine charts the emergence of the Middle East peace process, including the establishment of a separate track to deal with the issue of Palestine. At the very start of this process, Anziska argues, Egyptian-Israeli peace came at the expense of the sovereignty of the Palestinians, whose aspirations for a homeland alongside Israel faced crippling challenges. With the introduction of the idea of restrictive autonomy, Israeli settlement expansion, and Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the chances for Palestinian statehood narrowed even further. The first Intifada in 1987 and the end of the Cold War brought new opportunities for a Palestinian state, but many players, refusing to see Palestinians as a nation or a people, continued to steer international diplomacy away from their cause. Combining astute political analysis, extensive original research, and interviews with diplomats, military veterans, and communal leaders, Preventing Palestine offers a bold new interpretation of a highly charged struggle for self-determination.

Author : Seth Anziska
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691202457

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For seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace treaty with Egypt that is widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. Yet the Palestinians - the would-be beneficiaries of a vision for a comprehensive regional settlement that led to the Camp David Accords in 1978 - remain stateless to this day. How and why Palestinian statelessness persists are the central questions of Seth Anziska's groundbreaking book, which explores the complex legacy of the agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter. Based on newly declassified international sources, Preventing Palestine charts the emergence of the Middle East peace process, including the establishment of a separate track to deal with the issue of Palestine. At the very start of this process, Anziska argues, Egyptian-Israeli peace came at the expense of the sovereignty of the Palestinians, whose aspirations for a homeland alongside Israel faced crippling challenges. With the introduction of the idea of restrictive autonomy, Israeli settlement expansion, and Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the chances for Palestinian statehood narrowed even further. The first Intifada in 1987 and the end of the Cold War brought new opportunities for a Palestinian state, but many players, refusing to see Palestinians as a nation or a people, continued to steer international diplomacy away from their cause.

Author : Bernard Wasserstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300137644

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Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop? by Bernard Wasserstein Pdf

Offering a persuasive basis for optimism about the conflict in the Middle East, Wasserstein focuses not only on religious differences, but on population, fertility rates, labor, and environmental pressures that have shaped politics in the region.

Author : Jamil Hilal
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1842778404

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Where Now for Palestine? by Jamil Hilal Pdf

This edited work provides an up-to-date analysis of the post-Hamas election victory and its effect on the Middle East Peace process. It will be of interest to a broad readership in current affairs, politics and Middle East Studies.

Author : Marwan Bishara
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1842772732

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Palestine/Israel by Marwan Bishara Pdf

Sharon's election. The Second Intifada. Suicide bombings. Israel's reoccupation of the West Bank. President Bush's demand that Palestinians choose a new leadership. In this new edition, Marwan Bishara, a leading Palestinian commentator, analyses the situation since the failed Oslo Accords and argues that peace without justice is impossible. Israel may not yet recognise this fact, but one day it will have to - in the same way as de Klerk a decade ago had to do in apartheid South Africa.

Author : Mandy Turner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498582889

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From the River to the Sea by Mandy Turner Pdf

From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of ‘Peace’ provides original analyses of how different coping strategies were developed as well as new forms of political expression, interaction, and mobilization since the 1993 peace deal between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. Its premise is that an historical realism is essential in order to develop a route out of the post-Oslo impasse that extended and solidified the power imbalance under the auspices of ‘peace’. The book includes chapters from experts across the disciplines of anthropology, economics, law, political science and sociology to map out and critically assess the impacts and responses to this ‘peace’ in different geographical and political settings. These innovative analyses also investigate processes that might enable a future to be built based on greater equality and an end to the oppression and violence that currently exists between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (and beyond).

Author : Jerome Slater
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 9780190459086

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Mythologies Without End by Jerome Slater Pdf

In Mythologies Without End, Jerome Slater takes stock of the conflict over time and argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong. Because of their widespread acceptance, there have been devastating consequences to the true interests of both countries. He argues that a critical examination and refutation of the many mythologies is a necessary first step toward solving the Arab-Israeliconflict.

Author : Hanan Alon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111001793

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Countering Palestinian Terrorism in Israel by Hanan Alon Pdf

A suggested approach to the policy issue of what and how much should be done by the Government of Israel to counter the objective threat of Palestinian terrorism. Palestinian terrorism is defined as Palestinian acts of low-level violence carried out for a political purpose, with the intent of inflicting casualties and damage as well as inducing fear and rage in Israeli society, and by so doing to incite Israel to react. After a historical analysis of Palestinian violence and Israeli countermeasures, the study focuses on current perceptions and observations. Terrorism is perceived by Israeli society as a major threat, both as a threat to the individual and as damaging to the national image. The perception of terrorism, however, is out of proportion to the share of terrorism in causing casualties, the reasons for which are given. The author suggests that Israel reduce the discrepancy in resource allocation among all casualty-preventing programs (say, preventing car accidents as well as countering terrorism); ameliorate society's perception of the subjective danger of terrorism; and, in general, to not react as expected to terrorist provocations. The study was prepared as a dissertation for the RAND Graduate Institute.

Author : Pamela Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119393366

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The Palestine Problem by Pamela Ferguson Pdf

Author : Jeff Halper
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131784733

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An Israeli in Palestine by Jeff Halper Pdf

Jeff Halper's book, like his life's work, is an inspiration. Drawing on his many years of directly challenging Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, he offers one of the most insightful analyses of the occupation I've read. His voice cries out to be heard.Jonathan Cook, author of Blood and Religion (2006) and Israel and the Clash of Civilisations (2008)In this book, the Israeli anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper throws a harsh light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of a critical insider. While the Zionist founders of Israel created a vibrant society, culture and economy, they did so at a high price: Israel could not maintain its exclusive Jewish character without imposing on the country's Palestinian population policies of ethnic cleansing, occupation and discrimination, expressed most graphically in its ongoing demolition of thousands of Palestinian homes, both inside Israel and in the Occupied Territories.An Israeli in Palestine records Halper's journey 'beyond the membrane' that shields his people from the harsh realities of Palestinian life to his 'discovery' that he was actually living in another country: Palestine. Without dismissing the legitimacy of his own country, he realises that Israel is defined by its oppressive relationship to the Palestinians. Pleading for a view of Israel as a real, living country which must by necessity evolve and change, Halper asks whether the idea of an ethnically pure 'Jewish State' is still viable. More to the point, he offers ways in which Israel can redeem itself through a cultural Zionism upon which regional peace and reconciliation are attainable.

Author : Alaa Tartir,Timothy Seidel,Tariq Dana
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755650859

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Resisting Domination in Palestine by Alaa Tartir,Timothy Seidel,Tariq Dana Pdf

This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism. Based on original empirical fieldwork, the contributors to this book adopt interdisciplinary and decolonial approaches in their examination of the intricate functions and structures of domination that permeate Palestinian life by illuminating the power dynamics at play and revealing the mechanisms that sustain the settler-colonial regime. This book identifies sites of colonial control and domination exerted on Palestine by Israel, and demonstrates how these sites of control are also sites of Palestinian resistance. The first section explores the political sites of control by focusing on governmentality, institutions, and technologies and mechanisms of control including how Israel manages access to health, life and death. The second section examines the economic mechanisms of exploitation, dispossession, and de-development including banking, taxation and the relationships between finance capital, aid and military occupation. The third section turns attention to environmental sites of control, focusing on land, indigeneity, space and racial capitalism. Finally, section four scrutinizes the intellectual sites of control, highlighting how norms, narratives, and knowledge production perpetuate domination.

Author : John Gee
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047103968

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Unequal Conflict by John Gee Pdf

Examines the problems faced by the Kurds in Syria.

Author : Gershon Shafir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520293502

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A Half Century of Occupation by Gershon Shafir Pdf

What is the occupation? -- Why has the occupation lasted this long? -- How has the occupation transformed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Author : Naseer Hasan Aruri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081523198

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Occupation, Israel Over Palestine by Naseer Hasan Aruri Pdf

Seventeen original essays present a comprehensive study of Israeli occupation since 1967. The work analyzes the political, social, economic, legal and cultural dimensions within the context of overall Zionist policy toward the Palestinian people and their land. - Back cover.

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807033241

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Brokers of Deceit by Rashid Khalidi Pdf

Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in the conflict. In this book, acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi zeroes in on the United States’s role as the purported impartial broker in this failed peace process. Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate how the United States’ involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he investigates is the “Reagan Plan” of 1982, when Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin refused to accept the Reagan administration’s proposal to reframe the Camp David Accords more impartially. The second moment covers the period after the Madrid Peace Conference, from 1991 to 1993, during which negotiations between Israel and Palestine were brokered by the United States until the signing of the secretly negotiated Oslo accords. Finally, Khalidi takes on President Barack Obama’s retreat from plans to insist on halting the settlements in the West Bank. Through in-depth research into and keen analysis of these three moments, as well as his own firsthand experience as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 pre–Oslo negotiations in Washington, DC, Khalidi reveals how the United States and Israel have actively colluded to prevent a Palestinian state and resolve the situation in Israel’s favor. Brokers of Deceit bares the truth about why peace in the Middle East has been impossible to achieve: for decades, US policymakers have masqueraded as unbiased agents working to bring the two sides together, when, in fact, they have been the agents of continuing injustice, effectively preventing the difficult but essential steps needed to achieve peace in the region.