Beyond Chutzpah

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Ilan Peleg, Dov Waxman

"This timely book explores the causes and consequences of the growing conflict between Israel's Jewish majority and its Palestinian-Arab minority"-- "Arguing that a comprehensive and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depends on a resolution of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict within Israel as much as it does on resolving the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, this timely book explores the causes and consequences of the growing conflict between Israel's Jewish majority and its Palestinian-Arab minority. It warns that if Jewish-Arab relations in Israel continue to deteriorate, this will pose a serious threat to the stability of Israel, to the quality of Israeli democracy, and to the potential for peace in the Middle East. The book examines the views and attitudes of both the Palestinian minority and the Jewish majority, as well as the Israeli state's historic approach to its Arab citizens. Drawing upon the experience of other states with national minorities, the authors put forward specific proposals for safeguarding and enhancing the rights of the Palestinian minority while maintaining the country's Jewish identity"--

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Dietmar Herz

Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Geschichte, Politik und Kultur Palästinas. Im Mittelpunkt stehen der Konflikt der Palästinenser mit dem Staat Israel und die palästinensische Politik unter Yassir Arafat. Die Autoren beschreiben die Hoffnungen und Probleme des Friedensprozesses und zeigen, wo die größten Hindernisse für einen dauerhaften Frieden liegen. Ein Blick auf das vielfältige kulturelle Leben im heutigen Palästina rundet die Darstellung ab. (Quelle: perlentaucher)

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Mark LeVine

"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 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."--Jacket.

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Elliott Abrams

This book tells the inside story of America's policy toward Israel and the Palestinians during the George W. Bush years.