Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948, Second Edition

by Tanya Reinhart

Overview

In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel’s new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States–brokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the negotiating parties and identifies Israel’s strategy of creating facts on the ground to define and complicate the terms of any future settlement.
In this indispensable primer, Reinhart’s searing insight illuminates the current conflict and suggests a path toward change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781583226513
Publisher:	Seven Stories Press
Publication date:	12/07/2004
Series:	Open Media Series: Open Media Book
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.48(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

TANYA REINHART is a professor of linguistics and cultural studies at Tel Aviv University and at the University of Utrecht. She is most well known academically for her contribution to theoretical linguistics. In 1994, following the Oslo agreements, which she viewed as a painful deception of the Palestinian people, and the setting of a sophisticated Apartheid regime, she turned to political writing. She has had a regular critical column in the biggest Israeli daily, Yediot Aharonot, as well as many other articles online. For more information, visit Reinhart's web site at http://www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	7
I	The OSLO Years: False Expectations	13
II	The Camp David Negotiations: Myths and Facts	21
	Point of Departure: The Beilin-Abu Mazen Plan	26
	What Barak Offered at Camp David	30
	The Central Settlement Blocs	33
	Jerusalem	34
	The Rest of the West Bank and Gaza	42
	The Right of Return	51
III	The Syria Precedent	61
	"The Vision of Peace"	61
	Barak's Peace Speeches	64
	The Shepherdstown Document	66
	The Geneva Summit-The Final Blow	74
IV	Barak's Version of Sharon	78
V	October 2000-"The Second Half of 1948"	88
	A Holy War	88
	October 2000	93
	"The Second Half of 1948"	106
VI	The First Year: Israel's Slow Ethnic Cleansing	112
	The Policy of Injuries	112
	The Destruction of Palestinian Society	116
VII	December 2001: "Topple Arafat"	129
	The Military Plans	133
	The U.S. Role	142
VIII	April-June 2002: The Return of Military Occupation	143
	Operation Defensive Shield	144
	Jenin-The Untold Crime	152
	Penal Colonies	170
IX	What Does Israel Really Want?	181
	Arafat's Security Record	181
	The Two Poles in Israel's Politics	188
	The Rule of the Military	198
X	The Way Out	208
	False Expectations, Round II-The Clinton Plan (Taba)	209
	The Dead End of Eternal Negotiations	229
	Immediate Israeli Withdrawal	226
Appendix	The OSLO Apartheid	236
	Epilogue to the Second Editon	244
	Notes	263
	Index	287
	About the Author	301

Editorial Reviews

[An] excellent book.” –Yitzhak Laor, Haaretz (Israel)

“Reinhart accomplishes the formidable task of adding insight to a subject that is written about endlessly.” –The Nation

“Tanya Reinhart's Israel/Palestine is the most devastating critique now available of Israel's policy toward the Palestinian people. Written with urgency and an unflinching clarity, it deserves to be read by every American who, unknowingly perhaps, has been subsidizing Israel's 35-yea-old military occupation. Today Palestinians face either ethnic cleansing or apartheid. Reinhart compellingly shows why and how both must be opposed.” –Edward W. Said

“Tanya Reinhart's informative and chilling analysis could hardly be more timely. It should be read and considered with care, and taken very seriously.” –Noam Chomsky

“Tanya Reinhart is an Israeli scholar who is known for her works in linguistics, but also as the author of a biweekly column in the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot. Her book demonstrates the hoax suffered by the Palestinians, sometimes with the complicity of their own Authority. It also shows that, behind the semantic and cartographic contortions, the main objective of the Israeli governments has been to give up as little as possible and to accept but a truncated Palestinian autonomy. According to her, the solution is simple: 'In order to initiate true negotiations, Israel has to withdraw unilaterally' from the occupied Palestinian territories.” –Le Monde

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