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Palestine/Israel : peace or apartheid : prospects for resolving the conflict / Marwan Bishara.
LIBRA DS119.76 .B55 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bishārah, Marwān.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Peace.
- Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 142 pages : maps ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books ; Halifax, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Pub. ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Palgrave, 2001.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- In this insightful book, a leading Palestinian commentator, analyzes where Palestinians and Israelis are now -- eight years after the Oslo Accords of 1993 and the peace process they were supposed to have begun. Bishara shows how the asymmetry of power between Palestinians (the occupied) and Israelis (the occupiers) was ignored by patrons of the Oslo peace process -- notably the US. Running counter to the prevailing support for the Oslo process, this evocative new book shows how it was in fact doomed from the start. Inviting the reader to look ahead, Bishara examines the demographic, political, and security stakes, and explores the avenues that eventually could lead both sides to a just and durable peace.
- Contents:
- Preface: The Search for an Israeli de Gaulle xi
- Violence
- 1 The Second Intifada 11
- On the ground: Israel's land war 15
- The international front: Israel's media war 18
- The Intifada: a break with Oslo 24
- 2 Israel's Enemy Within: The Million Forgotten Palestinians 28
- October 2000: the Israeli Palestinians' lonely rising 29
- Decades of discrimination 34
- A 'fifth column' 36
- What future? 38
- Interim
- 3 Impasse in the Oslo Diplomatic Process 43
- The peace process: defective diplomacy 45
- Contextualizing Oslo 47
- Constructive ambiguity becomes deliberate deception 50
- Israeli leadership crisis undermines diplomacy 51
- The Camp David charade 54
- The last-minute negotiations, January 2001 56
- Sharon's victory 58
- 4 The Real Role of the United States in the Peace Process 60
- US considerations, US goals 61
- Coercive diplomacy 64
- America caves in on the illegal settlements 65
- Palestinian and Israeli perceptions of America's role 68
- Blackmailing the Palestinians 70
- Failure: from Clinton to Bush 71
- Final Status Negotiations
- 5 The Palestinian Refugees 77
- The most important 'final status' issue 77
- The refugee question in the negotiations 79
- The international community's lasting obligation 82
- 6 Jerusalem 84
- The Old City: whose city? 84
- Israel's demographic war 86
- Jerusalem in the final status negotiations 88
- Sharing the city: end to an Israeli taboo 91
- The politics of Jerusalem today 92
- Apartheid
- 7 Seven Fat Years for Israel
- Seven Lean Years for Palestine 99
- Oslo as an economic document 100
- The impact of Oslo on the Palestinian economy 103
- Separation becomes segregation 105
- Israel restructures economic relations with Palestinians 106
- Being an economic dependency 109
- 8 The West Bank Settlements: Apartheid in Practice 114
- Expansion of the settlements 116
- The real purpose of the settlements 119
- Oslo institutionalizes apartheid 121
- No End in Sight
- 9 Israel the Unready: But Choose it Must 129.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1842771108
- 1842771116
- OCLC:
- 47273086
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