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2006/253 pages/LC: 2005011009 |
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.
Yoram Meital is senior lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies and chair of the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy at Ben-Gurion University. His previous publications in English include Egypt's Struggle for Peace: Continuity and Change, 1967-1977.
"This is a valuable and much recommended work.... Meital provides a well-documented and convincing addition to recent testimonials that refute prevailing myths of the conflict."—Ranjit Singh, Digest of Middle East Studies
"Presents fresh and revealing insights...Hopefully, this excellent work will receive the attention it deserves."—Elka R. Frankel, Multicultural Review
"In a well-documented analysis, Yoram Meital ... makes a compelling case for his thesis that Israel and the United States share the blame for the failure of the Oslo peace process.... [He] points out persuasively the great damage done to the prospects for peace by the success of the Barak, Clinton, Sharon, and Bush administrations in entrenching the view that the Palestinians were exclusively to blame."—Philip C. Wilcox, Middle East Journal
"A detailed and nuanced political history of how the hope for Israeli-Palestinian peace embodied in the Oslo agreements (1993) deteriorated into the Al-Aksa Intafada (2000) and the recognition that the 'peace process' had failed by 2004. The book is unique in that an Israeli scholar, trained in Middle East studies, tries to understand and explain the actions of both parties to the conflict."—Russell Stone, Shofar