PALESTINIAN PEOPLE by Baruch Kimmerling ( 9780674011298 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
A HISTORY

By:

Baruch Kimmerling

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0674011295

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9780674011298

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Publisher:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 April, 2003

Pages:

608

Description:

This title is an account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. It also looks at the realities of creating peace in the Middle East.

Synopsis:

In a timely reminder of how the past informs the present, Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. Palestinians struggled to create themselves as a people from the first revolt of the Arabs in Palestine in 1834 through the British mandate to the impact of Zionism and the founding of Israel. Their relationship with the Jewish people and the State of Israel has been fundamental in shaping that identity, and today Palestinians find themselves again at a critical juncture. In the 1990s cornerstones for peace were laid for eventual Palestinian-Israeli coexistence, including mutual acceptance, the renunciation of violence as a permanent strategy, and the establishment for the first time of Palestinian self-government. But the dawn on the 21st century saw a reversion to unmitigated hatred and mutual demonization. By mid-2002 the brutal violence of the Intifada had crippled Palestine's fledgling political institutions and threatened the fragile social cohesion painstakingly constructed after 1967.Kimmerling and Migdal unravel what went right - and what went wrong - in the Oslo peace process, and what lessons we can draw about the forces that help to shape a people. The authors present a balanced, insightful and sobering look at the realities of creating peace in the Middle East.

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6 maps

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