The olive branch from Palestine : the Palestinian declaration of independence and the path out of the current impasse / Jerome M. Segal ; foreword by Noam Chomsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segal, Jerome M., 1943- author.

Contributor:

Chomsky, Noam, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government.

Palestinian Arabs.

Nationalism--Palestine.

Nationalism.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Palestine--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Palestine.

Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

The Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about the two-state solution, even in the absence of a fully committed Israeli partner. In part 1, Jerome Segal provides an analytical and historical study of the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, a remarkable act of unilateral peacemaking through which the PLO accepted the legitimacy of the 1947 Partition Resolution and thereby redefined Palestinian nationalism. In part 2, he proposes a new strategy in which, outside of negotiations, the Palestinians would advance, in full detail, the end-of-claims/end-of-conflict peace plan they are prepared to sign, one that powerfully addresses the Palestinian refugee question and is supported by the refugees themselves yet does not undermine Israel as a Jewish-majority state.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One. The Unilateral Surprise

Two. The Evolution of the Palestine Liberation Organization Prior to the Declaration

Three. 1988 Leading up to the Declaration

Four. How the Declaration Was Drafted

Five. Darwish

Six. Two Declarations: Israeli and Palestinian Side by Side

Seven. Reactions to the Declaration and Meeting the US Conditions

Eight. The Struggle with the United States over Recognition of the New State

Nine. PLO Strategy and the Declaration

Ten. Early Statehood and Opportunities to Return to the Declaration

Eleven. The Path Out of the Current Impasse: Palestinian Peacemaking

Conclusion. The Significance of the Declaration

APPENDIX State of Palestine Declaration of Independence

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520381315

0520381319

OCLC:

1296690072