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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818950203321

Autore

Karpin Michael I.

Titolo

Imperfect compromise : a new consensus among Israelis and Palestinians / / Michael Karpin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Potomac Books, , [2013]

ISBN

1-61234-546-8

Edizione

[First Edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (403 p.)

Disciplina

956.94054

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict - 1993- - Peace

Palestinian Arabs - Politics and government - 1993-

Zionism

Israel Politics and government 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Author's Note; PART I A POST-ZIONIST ANALYSIS; 1 Historical Correction; 2 Without Compassion; 3 The Messiah Is Back; 4 The Original Sin; 5 "Jewish and Democratic" or "State of All Its Citizens"; PART II AS ARABS PUSH FOR A SETTLEMENT, ISRAEL PLAYS FOR TIME; 6 War and Peace; 7 "They Had Learned Nothing from History"; 8 Impotent Leadership; 9 Secular Messianism; 10 The Demographic Threat; 11 A Bulldozer That Built and Destroyed; PART III PALESTINIAN PRAGMATISM: INSTEAD OF TERROR, PASSIVE CIVIL RESISTANCE; 12 Two Palestines

13 Softening the Hardest14 A Palestinian Easy to Like; 15 The Right of Return; PART IV BEYOND PROVINCIALITY: FACING EXTERNAL FACTORS; 16 Delayed Ignition; 17 A State of Isolation; 18 Iran-Two Scenarios, One Realistic; 19 The Bomb Is Still in the Basement; 20 Post-Assad; 21 The Next Cycle; 22 Critical Mass; 23 Apology and Compensation; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The Middle East is now in the eye of a storm. But as this storm abates, an opportunity for peace and progress has emerged. In Imperfect Compromise , Michael Karpin, an Israeli broadcast journalist, presents a new thesis about the Middle East peace settlement. He lays out an optimistic forecast: The violent conflict between Arabs and Jews that



has had the greatest negative impact on world peace since the end of the Cold War is moving steadily toward resolution. Moreover, since the first Zionists settled on the shore of the Lake of Galilee a hundred years ago, the relations between Arabs and Jew