The future of Palestine and Israel
Subtitle: from colonial roots to postcolonial realities
By: edited by Aslam Farouk-Alli
Publisher: Institute for Global Dialogue; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, South Africa Office
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Midrand, South Africa; Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9781920216030
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict; Peace; Palestinian Arabs; Politics and government
Description: The volume is divided into six parts, representing a series of dialogical encounters, either directly - by presenting two or more perspectives on the same question - or indirectly - by presenting alternative readings of entrenched positions. Part 1 examines the historical dimensions of the conflict. Parts 2 and 3 examine Zionism and the two-state solution respectively, while Part 4 explores alternatives to the two-state solution, drawing the dominant paradigm of the peace process into conversation with fresher approaches. Part 5 examines the role of the international community in critical gaze, while Part 6 explains the rise of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, presenting authoritative insider perspectives that explore past events as well as the current nexus of the conflict. While no clear solution to the conflict is in sight, this volume does show that its parameters are slowly shifting, thereby opening up an important space that enables Israelis and Palestinians - with the support of the international community - to initiate the process of re-imagining the horizons of their collective existence in a manner that affirms our common humanity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The poetics of justice and the politics of oppression; title: Palestine, Israel and the world / Aslam Farouk-Alli; title: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict : a historical overview / Mark Tessler; title: Israel : a colonial-settler state? What kind of decolonisation? : some reflections from South Africa / Shamil Jeppie; title: Notes on Zionism / Benny Morris; title: Religious Zionism / Gideon Shimoni; title: From functional Jewish communities to the functional Zionist state / Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri; title: The two-state option : an updated Israeli perspective / Naomi Chazan; title: The two-state solution : a Palestinian perspective / Diana Buttu; title: After Oslo : time to resume the debate on the two-state solution and to restart the binational debate / Asʼad Ghanem; title: A two-state solution, or smoke and mirrors? : looking awry at Israel's state-building agenda / Virginia Tilley; title: Alternatives to a two-state solution : binational single state or one state? / Ronnie Kasrils; title: Arab attitudes and peace opportunities in the Arab-Israeli conflict / Abdallah Al-Ashaal; title: The United States and Palestine / Rashid Khalidi; title: Israel, Palestine and the European Union / George Joffé; title: US and European approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Heribert Adam; title: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict : a South African perspective / Aziz Pahad; title: The genesis of Islamic reformist discourse with special reference to Islamist discourse in Palestine / Mustafa Abu-Sway; title: Hamas : from resistance to governance / Azzam Tamimi; title: The Palestinian situation in the West Bank and Gaza; title: future horizons / Musa Abu-Marzuq.