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More copies of this ISBN:Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primerby Phyllis Bennis
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:If you have ever wondered "Why is there so much violence in the Middle East?," "Who are the Palestinians anyway?," "What are the occupied territories?" or "What does Israel want?," then this is the book for you. With straightforward language, Phyllis Bennis, longtime analyst of the region, answers basic questions about Israel and Israelis, Palestine and Palestinians, the US and the Middle East, Zionism and anti-Semitism; about complex issues ranging from the Oslo peace process to the election of Hamas. Together her answers provide a comprehensive understanding of the long-standing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Book News Annotation:Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies) utilizes a question and answer
format in order to provide a well-informed and, considering its
brevity, surprisingly detailed primer on Israeli-Palestinian history
and politics for an American audience seeking to understand US policy
in the region. Bennis assumes almost no prior knowledge of the region
and even answers such introductory questions as "Why are the
Palestinians in Israel at all?" She also provides significant detail
on UN resolutions concerning the conflict, the role of other states
and the United Nations' in the conflict, the diplomatic intricacies
of the so-called peace process, Israeli violations of international
law, and the impact of important events such as the occupation of
Iraq and the Israeli war in Southern Lebanon. All but the most expert
will likely learn something and the neophyte will greatly benefit in
understanding by reading this book. One small failing is the lack of
any discussion, either positive or negative, of increasing calls for
a binational one-state democratic solution, as opposed to the
two-state solution, which remains the sole focus of Bennis's
discussion of a just future.
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