Peace in Tatters : Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East / Yoram Meital.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meital, Yoram, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Peace in Tatters was born in a set of questions with which the author, an Israeli scholar, has struggled for some years: What went wrong in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before the July 2000 Camp David summit and during the crucial negotiations? How have the dominant narratives about the collapse of the peace process been crafted? Does the ongoing crisis mark the end of the road for the idea that the conflict can be settled on the basis of a two-state solution, with Palestinians and Israelis living as peaceful neighbors? Yoram Meital offers a powerful explanation of how and why the peace process developed, evolved, and ultimately fell apart. Though rich in historical context, Peace in Tatters focuses primarily on the critical years of 2000-2004. Meital examines the major developments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the evolving public-political discourse in Israeli and Palestinian societies, and US policy in the Middle East. He also explores the dramatic repercussions of the aborted political process for Israelis and Palestinians, and for their opinions about the failure of the negotiations and the eruption of violence. His clear-sighted appraisal will help readers not only to understand what went wrong, but also to see present events in an essentially different way.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

Part 1 The Goal: An End to Conflict

2 From War to Peace

3 Oslo: The “Peace” “Process”

4 Barak’s Blueprint and Its Failure

5 Camp David: The Great Charade

Part 2 The Outcome: Peace in Tatters

6 The al-Aqsa Intifada

7 The “No Partner” Approach

8 September 11 and the Middle East

9 The Arab Peace Initiative and Bush’s “Vision”

10 From the Roadmap to the Geneva Initiative

11 High Fences Make Good Neighbors?

12 Conclusion

Appendixes

Appendix 1: Chronology of Key Events, 1947–2005

Appendix 2: President George W. Bush Calls for New Palestinian Leadership, June 2002

Appendix 3: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Speech at the Herzliya Conference, December 2002

Appendix 4: A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, April 2003

Bibliography

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

1-68585-783-3