Impossible Peace
Subtitle: Israel/Palestine since 1989 (Global History of the Present)
Publisher: Zed Books; Fernwood; Zed; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781842777695
Subjects: Armed conflict; Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; 21st century; c 1990 to c 2000; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Israel; Palestine; International Relations - Treaties; Middle East - Israel; Political Science / Treaties
Description: "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.