Intimate enemies : Jews and Arabs in a shared land / Meron Benvenisti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benvenisti, Meron, 1934-2020

Standardized Title:

Meḥol ha-ḥaradot. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict--1973-1993.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993-.

Intifada, 1987-1993.

Persian Gulf War, 1991--Israel.

Persian Gulf War, 1991.

Israel--Politics and government.

Israel.

Politics and government.

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (1993 September 13).

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements.

Physical Description:

xiii, 260 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995]

Summary:

One hundred years of life-and-death struggle between Jew and Arab over exclusive possession of Jerusalem and the Holy Land culminated in terrible blood baths and supreme acts of reconciliation, occurring during a short span of time: October 1990 to September 1993. Meron Benvenisti begins his excavation of this primordial struggle with the massacre on the Temple Mount in October 1990. Through this tragic lens, he brilliantly analyzes the entangled status of Jerusalem. He ends his book with the handshake of the Peace Accord in September 1993, a symbol of the promised peace. These are the two images of the intimate enmity between Israelis and Palestinians. Which image, he asks, represents the true nature of the conflict? Will a century of bloodshed prevent peace or will the future forgive the past? Is the conflict really over or have the rules of engagement simply shifted?

Contents:

Foreword: Feremiah and Fonah / Thomas L. Friedman vii

1. City of Strife 1

2. Border or Frontier? 52

3. The Uprising 72

4. Deus ex Machina 112

5. The Elusive Peace 151

6. Breakthrough 197.

Notes:

Rev. English version of: Meḥol ha-ḥaradot.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520085671

OCLC:

31900256