Impossible peace : Israel/Palestine since 1989 / Mark LeVine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeVine, Mark, 1966-

Series:

Global history of the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel--Treaties.

Israel.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Peace.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1973-1993.

Peace treaties.

Physical Description:

ix, 222 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Halifax, Nova Scotia : Fernwood ; London ; New York : Zed ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, [2009]

Summary:

In 1993 luminaries from around the world signed the Oslo accords, a pledge to achieve lasting peace in the Holy Land. Yet, with over a thousand Israelis and nearly four times that number of Palestinians killed since 2000, the Oslo process is now considered 'history'.

Impossible Peace provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of that history. Mark LeVine argues that Oslo was never going to bring peace or justice to Palestinians or Israelis. He claims that the accords collapsed not because of a failure to live up to the agreements, but precisely because of the terms and underlying ideologies of those agreements.

This fresh and honest account of the peace process in the Middle East shows how by learning from history it may be possible to avoid the errors that have long doomed peace in the region.

Contents:

1 From modernity to the Messiah on the Mediterranean 19

2 From handshake to security state 43

3 No land, no peace 75

4 The economics of failure: neoliberalism and the new Middle East 102

5 Religion, culture, and territory in a globalized context 130

6 Violence, chaos, and the history of the future 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-214) and index.

ISBN:

1842777688

9781842777688

1842777696

9781842777695

1552662578

9781552662571

OCLC:

176835224