Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process

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University of Alberta, 20.05.1999 - 197 Seiten
The 1994 Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestinians were hailed as the start of a process that would bring about resolution of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Five years later, Oslo must be judged a failure. For the Arab and Islamic world, Israel remains what it was at the outset of Oslo — a pariah state illegally occupying Arab lands.Gaza-based journalist Graham Usher witnessed many of the pivotal events of the peace process, and his insightful new book gives voice to the people of Palestine. In addition to presenting the views of ordinary individuals on the street, the book includes interviews with many of the leading commentators and figures from Palestinian Hamas and Fatah, Lebanese Hezballah, and Shas (the Sephardic Jews within Israel). Among the key figures interviewed are Azmi Bishara (Arab activist/Israeli citizen running for President), Yossi Beilin (former Israeli Labour Cabinet member) Aryeh Deri (Shas), Marwan Barghouti (Fatah), and Ibrahim Ghoshah (Hamas). The collection also contains longer, analytical pieces that describe the rise of Hamas in the occupied territories; the growing authoritarianism of Yassar Arafat's Palestinian Authority; the politics of Hezballah in Lebanon; and the causes behind the nihilistic violence of the Gamaa Islamiyya in Egypt. Dispatches from Palestine offers the contemporary history of a process that has irreversibly changed the nature of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict — and one whose failure is bound to leave its mark on the region and the world in the future.
 

Inhalt

Preface
9
an Interview with Ilan Pappe
34
Jabalyia and the Meaning of Return
49
Preface
55
the PAs
67
a Profile of Palestinian Council Candidate
80
The Charter and the Future of Palestinian Politics
93
The Palestinians in Israel
103
Luxor the Gamaa and Egypts Prisons
130
Interviews with
136
an Interview with Yossi Beilin
145
an Interview with
151
The Fire the Next Time? Palestinians in Lebanon
162
Impossible Contradictions Israel at 50
169
References
176
Index
191

Preface
113
Madness in Ramallah
120

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Graham Usher was Palestine correspondent for The Economist, Middle East International and al-Ahram English Weekly. He is the author of Dispatches from Palestine (Pluto Press 1999).

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