Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
Avi Shlaim, one of the world's foremost experts on the Israel–Palestine conflict, reflects with characteristic rigour and readability on a range of key issues and personalities. From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the failure of the Oslo peace process, from the 1948 War to the 2008 invasion of Gaza, Israel and Palestine places current events in their proper historical perspective. It assesses the impact of key political and intellectual figures, including Yasir Arafat and Ariel Sharon, Edward Said and Benny Morris. It also re-examines the United States’ influential role in the conflict, and explores the many missed opportunities for peace and progress in the region.
Clear-eyed and meticulous, Israel and Palestine is an essential tool for understanding the fractured history and future prospects of Israel-Palestine.
Hardback, 392 pages
ISBN: 9781844673667
September 2009
$34.95 / £16.99
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Reviews
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Avi Shlaim is the sort of historian every country needs. An exposer of national myths, the supreme scholar of Arab-Israeli negotiations.
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Not often today do we find historians who are this honest and this bleak and this able—for some reason, I think here of T. S. Eliot’s essays—to express truth so simply.
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Provides even the hardened student with some new perspectives.
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Noted historian Shlaim presents a collection of hard-hitting pieces about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict….Shlaim is an important, sage, reasoned voice on the course of Israeli-Palestinian relations.
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One of the best and most illuminating accounts of Arab-Israeli relations in years.
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Fascinating … Shlaim presents compelling evidence for a re-evaluation of traditional Israeli history.