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The Absence of Peace - Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Paperback, 1st Reprinted edition)
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The Absence of Peace - Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Paperback, 1st Reprinted edition)
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Suicide bombings continue remorselessly to traumatize the Israeli
people as the world's media, on each occasion, bring dramatic
pictures of the terror and carnage caused. Much less wellknown, and
very little publicized, however, is the daily fear, poverty and
anger of West Bank and Gaza Palestinians as a result of the
continuing presence of over 300,000 Jewish settlers in their midst,
as well as the ongoing Israeli military occupation, economic
sanctions and constant retaliations. This is what this book is
about.
Equally important, Nicholas Guyatt examines the Oslo Peace Accords
which, when the Israeli Government and the PLO signed them in 1993,
raised such high hopes of a permanent settlement of the Palestine
Question. He shows the problem to be not just incomplete
implementation of the Accords (although Israel is frequently
procrastinating), but their very conception. There can be no
economically viable Palestinian state, nor one which can command
the respect and enthusiasm of Palestinians, so long as its
territory remains fragmented by a growing number of Jewish
settlements, the Palestinian Authority becomes a surrogate
policeman for the Israeli government, and the Palestinian enclaves
are dependent on Israel for access to the outside world, for
electrical power, for jobs and so many of the other necessities of
life.
This book needs to be read by all those who are puzzled by why the
Oslo process, from which so much was expected, now seems to be
making so little contribution to peace on the ground, and who wish
to understand whether there may be alternatives holding out more
hope of a permanent and just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
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