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Israel and Palestine
Alternative Perspectives on Statehood
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2016
Summary
For decades, Israeli Jews, Palestinians, and Israeli Arabs have been engaged in a debate about past history, present options, and future possibilities. Basic questions of citizenship, religion, political tactics, democracy, the rule of law, and a host of other matters are abandoned, revived and modified in an intellectual exchange between representatives of all three communities that is as old as the political conflicts that have marked the region. The high stakes, intense emotions—and meager results—of the “peace process” lend particular importance and salience to these discussions.
The sophistication of these debates will come as a surprise to many observers who might have concluded that there is no escape from the present impasse and little possibility for a just settlement of the grievous divisions in the region. Given the pivotal role of the United States in the Middle East, it would be particularly helpful if Americans’ understanding of the issues went beyond the superficiality that often passes for political discussion and media coverage. Whatever the outcome of the discussions currently under way, the central commitment of the Oslo Accords to the two-state solution has long been the foundation of American diplomacy and is the starting-point of Washington’s most recent attempt to revive the moribund peace process.
Important segments of public opinion in the three communities, however, have started to question the possibility—and, more importantly perhaps, the desirability—of a two-state solution. Their doubts have set in motion a lively and important debate, and this book is designed to introduce American readers to the terms of that discussion. It features essays by well-known Israeli academics, both Jewish and Palestinian, as well as contributions from non-Israeli citizen Palestinian, and American scholars. It is the first to bring together a wide range of views and perspectives by influential scholars from various disciplines as well as from activists to bear on a very topical subject with international ramifications.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-4507-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4508-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
386
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access
1 Facing the Music: Israel, Palestine, and the Politics of PartisanDelusions No access
2 Making Sense of the Nakba: Ari Shavit, Baruch Marzel, andZionist Claims to Territory No access
3 Israel and the Closing of the American Jewish Mind No access
4 The Root Causes of Enduring Conflict: Can Israel and PalestineCo-exist? No access
5 Reclaiming Human Rights: An Alternative Approach to theIsraeli-Palestinian Conflict No access
6 Not Exactly Apartheid: The Dynamics of Settler Colonialismand Military Occupation No access
7 The One-State Delusion No access
8 To What Extent Reconciliation?: An Analysis of the GenevaAccord between Israelis and Palestinians No access
9 One Country Two States: Planning the Alternative Spatial Relations between Palestine and Israel From Back to Back toFace to Face No access
10 The Way Forward in the Middle East No access
11 The One-State Solution and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:Palestinian Challenges and Prospects No access
12 A One-State Solution?: From a “Struggle unto Death” to“Master-Slave” Dialectics No access
13 Past and Present Perfect of Israel’s One-State Solution No access
14 Toward a Shared Vision of Israel and Israel/Palestine No access
15 Neither One nor Two: Reflections about a Shared Future inIsrael-Palestine No access
16 Between One and Two: Apartheid or Confederation forIsrael/Palestine? Transcript of Address to the Conference “One State between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River—A Dream or Reality?” No access
17 Beyond Traditional Sovereignty Theory in Conflict Resolution:Lessons from Israel/Palestine No access
Conclusion: Out of the Darkness No access Pages 365 - 370
