Prophets without honor : the 2000 Camp David Summit and the end of the two-state solution /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ben-Ami, Shlomo, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Description:	xvii, 381 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Peace. Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government -- 1993- Arab-Israeli conflict -- Peace. Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government. Politics and government. Israel -- Politics and government -- 1993- Israel.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12723761

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Varying Form of Title:	2000 Camp David Summit and the end of the two-state solution
ISBN:	9780190060473 0190060476 9780190060497 9780197587560
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is the story of the defining failure of the entire two-state peace paradigm, a rote religion that still dominates the international discourse on Palestine. In its two first parts - Anatomy of a Seminal Mis-encounter and A Savage War for Peace - this book is an insider account of the July 2000 Camp David summit and the negotiations that followed it, amid the Second Intifada, the cruelest war on Palestine since 1948, until the last days of Bill Clinton's presidency. Clinton's Peace Parameters were the "final product" of that endeavor. The failure of Camp David is also explained through the drama of the interplay between its main actors, Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat. The Third Part -Defying the Imperatives of Conflict Resolution - comprises six chapters that offer an interpretive account of all peace negotiations to this day; a description of the occupation's traits of permanence; the inherent contradictions of the two-state solution; a scrutiny of ominous alternatives such as the binational state, an Israeli unilateral pullout from much of the West Bank and Donald Trump's Deal of the Century; and a discussion of the "Jordanian option", a solution with a long pedigree here revisited. Underlining the singularity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the last essay examines it in a broad comparative perspective. The Epilogue addresses the consequences of Israel's supposed defeat of the Palestinian national movement on her moral profile and international standing"--
Other form:	Online version: Ben-Ami, Shlomo. Prophets without honor New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] 9780190060497

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of Maps
A Note on Vocabulary
Introduction
I. Anatomy of a Seminal Misencounter
1. First Steps, Harsh Truths
2. "A Secluded Nordic Castle"
3. Back to Square One
4. Longing for Hezbollah
5. Forcing the Leaders' Hands
6. A Conceivable Endgame?
7. The Promise of an American Steamroller
8. Inauspicious Beginnings
9. Clinton: "We Have Exhausted the Beauty of This Place"
10. A Game Changer (or So It Looked)
11. Oh Jerusalem! (and Its Lies)
12. Saeb Erakat: "Arafat Is Interested in a Crisis"
13. Albright's Intermezzo, Clinton's Last Push
14. Our Faintest Hour
15. Arafat: "Barak Has Gone beyond My Partner Rabin"
16. Reaping the Fruits of Success
17. Moments of Grace on the Precipice's Edge
II. A Savage War for Peace
18. "With Our Soul and Blood We'll Redeem Palestine"
19. Diplomacy under Fire
20. Trapped in No-Win Conditions
21. Neither Inspiring nor Intimidating
22. "Take It or Leave It": The Clinton Peace Parameters
23. "A Crime against the Palestinian People"
24. Barak in a Cage of Doves
25. Taba: "The Boss Doesn't Want an Agreement"
26. Post-Mortem
III. 2001-20: A Story of Promise and Deceit
27. The Conversion of the Hawks
A. George W. Bush's Roadmap (2002-4)
B. Ariel Sharon's Gaza Unilaterial Withdrawal (2005)
C. The George W. Bush Annapolis Process (2007-8)
28. The Impossible Triangle: Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas
A. The Limits of Obama's Engagement
B. John Kerry's Failing Bid
C. Text and Context in Obama's Peace Initiatives
29. An Uninviting Concept
A. The Geneva Understandings as a Parable
B. Beyond the Parable
30. The Failed "Zionization" of Palestine and the Three-State "Solution"
31. The Region and the World: A Broken Reed
A. The Changing Regional Strategic Game
B. Would America Save the Two-State Solution?
C. An Internationally Led Two-State Solution?
32. The Occupation's Traits of Permanence
A. Israel's Quest for Lebensraum
B. The Securitization of Peace
C. Israel's Dysfunctional Polity
D. What is Wrong with No-Peace Anyway?
IV. Denouements
33. Ominous Unravelings
A. The Specter of the Single Binational State
B. Unilateral Disengagement: The Alon Plan Redux
C. Unilateral Disengagement: Ehud Olmert's Version
D. Donald Trump's "Deal of the Century"
34. Exit Oslo, Enter Madrid
V. Defying the Logic of Conflict Resolution
35. Palestine: A Comparative Perspective
A. War as a Prelude to Peace
B. Northern Ireland and Colombia
C. Multidimensional Conflicts
D. The Colonial Paradigm
E. End of Conflict?
F. Refugees
G. Peace and Justice
H. Negotiations, Trust, and Would-Be Mediators
I. Apologia for Political Betrayal
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Prophets without honor : the 2000 Camp David Summit and the end of the two-state solution /

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