Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, ‘beautiful, but married to another man’. By which they meant that, if a place was to be found for Israel in Palestine, where would the people of Palestine go? This is a dilemma that Israel has never been able to resolve.
No conflict today is more dangerous than that between Israel and the Palestinians. The implications it has for regional and global security cannot be overstated. The peace process as we know it is dead and no solution is in sight. Nor, as this book argues, will that change until everyone involved in finding a solution accepts the real causes of conflict, and its consequences on the ground.
Leading writer Ghada Karmi explains in fascinating detail the difficulties Israel’s existence created for the Arab world and why the search for a solution has been so elusive. Ultimately, she argues that the conflict will end only once the needs of both Arabs and Israelis are accommodated equally. Her startling conclusions overturn conventional thinking – but they are hard to refute.
Table of Content
Preface
Introduction
1. The Cost of Israel to the Arabs
2. Why Do Jews Support Israel?
3. Why Does the West Support Israel?
4. The ‘Peace Process’
5. Destroying the Palestinians
6. Solving the Problem
7. The One-State Solution
Epilogue: The End of the Zionist Dream
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Ghada Karmi is a research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. From 1999 to 2001 she was an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where she led a major project on Israel-Palestinian reconciliation. In 2009, she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is the author of In Search of Fatima (Verso, 2004), Married to Another Man (Pluto, 2007) and Return (Verso, 2015).
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