Full Description
This compelling book takes the reader behind the headlines of the confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians, examining its human dimension and setting it in a balanced historical context. In the last decade of the millennium, the century-long conflict came within a hair's breadth of a solution through the Oslo Accords, only to explode in violence, hatred, and mutual recrimination, following the failed summit at Camp David in the summer of 2000. In his search for understanding, Daniel Gavron talks to Israelis and Palestinians of all backgrounds and shades of opinion. Politicians and economists, entrepreneurs and writers, psychologists and teachers, men and women, veterans and youngsters, fervent militants and pragmatic realists all speak in these pages. We hear the Palestinian fighter and the Israeli soldier, the Jewish settler and the Arab Israeli, the negotiators from the opposite sides of the table, the bereaved parents. These Israeli and Palestinian voices reflect the excruciating agony of both societies, conveying a searing reality that, although seemingly hopeless, emphasizes the basic humanity of both peoples. In a startling final section, the author proposes a daring old-new idea to lead the region out of its tragic morass.
Contents
Chapter 1 Chronology Part 2 Introduction Part 3 Part I Yesterday Chapter 4 Chapter 1: The Unsolved Problem Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Nasser Eddin Nashashibi: Palestinian Patrician Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Lova Eliav: Israeli Pioneer Part 7 Part II Today Chapter 8 Chapter 4: The Reluctant Warriors Chapter 9 Abdulla Abu-Hadid: For a Two-State Solution Chapter 10 Nir Shoshani: "Each Time It's More Difficult" Chapter 11 Adi Eilat: Courage to Refuse Chapter 12 Jonathan Kuttab: The Nonviolent Militant Chapter 13 Chapter 5: The Price Chapter 14 Yitzhak Frankenthal, Israeli Bereaved Parent Chapter 15 Tariq Essawi, Palestinian Bereaved Parent Chapter 16 Mariet Khouri: Ubiquitous Trauma Chapter 17 Zehava Solomon: Selective Trauma Chapter 18 Baiga Shochat: Peace Means Prosperity Chapter 19 Samir Huleileh: Preventive Action Now Chapter 20 Chapter 6: The Entanglement Chapter 21 Meira Dolev and Amit Segal, Second-Generation Settlers Chapter 22 Sayed Kashu, The Invisible Man Chapter 23 Menahem Froman, The Maverick Settler Part 24 Part III Tomorrow Chapter 25 Chapter 7: The Impossible Solution Chapter 26 Chapter 8: The Improbable Solution
