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No End of Conflict - Rethinking Israel-Palestine (Hardcover)
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No End of Conflict - Rethinking Israel-Palestine (Hardcover)
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Yossi Alpher, a veteran of peace process research and dialogue,
explains how Israel got into its current situation of growing
international isolation, political stalemate, and gathering
messianic political influence. He investigates the inability of
Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and end their conflict
before suggesting not "solutions" (as there is no current prospect
for a realistic comprehensive solution), but ways to moderate and
soften the worst aspects of the situation and "muddle through" as
Israel looks to a somber bi-national future. Alpher argues that a
sober reassessment is long overdue in the way the West looks at the
Israeli-Palestinian relationship. He submits that we have to stop
talking about "the peace process" as if it still seriously exists,
that 20 years of the Oslo process have failed for very substantial
reasons that the professional peacemakers ignore at their risk, and
that Israel is more likely to sink into a single-state reality than
to remain truly "Jewish and democratic." Yet, his is a
non-ideological, no nonsense book. Israel will not disappear, will
not become impoverished, and will still find strategic partners.
The book opens with a true story of two sisters whose lives were
separated in 1947, as a parable for what is still happening in
Israel's relations with the Arab world in general and the
Palestinians in particular. It then offers brief analyses of how
Israel looks today in the world, from a rejection of deceptive
nostalgia for imaginary "good old days" to a discussion of Israel's
increasingly problematic internal cohesion and the paralysis this
generates in decision making regarding territories-for-peace
issues. A discussion of Diaspora Jewish influence focuses on the
Diaspora's anachronistic approach to the peace process. It is
followed by a look at the highly negative effect regional
developments are having on Israeli attitudes toward Arabs in
general and peace in particular, using the summer 2014 war with
Gaza-based Hamas as a case in point. Next comes a discussion of the
history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process,
looking at the principal processes and dynamics that have thwarted
peace and coexistence since the 1930s. Alpher argues that peace
process practitioners on all sides-Israel, Palestinians, other
Arabs, the US, the UN-have consistently ignored these dynamics or
refused to take them seriously, producing today's stalemate. The
book concludes with a look at the scaled-down alternatives
available today for avoiding, or at least delaying, total paralysis
and a one-state reality. These include a UN approach and another
unilateral withdrawal. It concludes with an examination of the
increasingly influential Israeli proponents of a one-state solution
and the spectacular damage their policies are bringing about.
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