Prophets Without Honor: The 2000 Camp David Summit and the End of the Two-State Solution Shlomo Ben-Ami

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190060476
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190060473
• Author: Shlomo Ben-Ami

A high-level insider’s history of the efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from 2000 Camp David Talks to the present, that explains why successive attempts have all failed.

The clash between Israel and Palestine has been one of the most emotionally engaging causes of modern times. Prophets without Honor tells the story of the grueling attempts to solve the conflict and examines the reasons for its resilience. Shlomo Ben-Ami, who participated at a high level in the July 2000 Camp David peace talks that almost led to a historic deal, uses his insider experience to illuminate the specific factors that impede a solution to the conflict. He finds that the occupation’s traits of permanence, Israel’s insatiable quest for Lebensraum, and a hopelessly fragmented and disoriented Palestinian national movement are to blame.

Table contents:

Introduction
I. Anatomy of a Seminal Misencounter
1. First Steps, Harsh Truths
2. “A Secluded Nordic Castle”
3. Back to Square One
4. Longing for Hezbollah
5. Forcing the Leaders’ Hands
6. A Conceivable Endgame?
7. The Promise of an American Steamroller
8. Inauspicious Beginnings
9. Clinton: “We Have Exhausted the Beauty of This Place”
10. A Game Changer (or So It Looked)
11. Oh Jerusalem! (and Its Lies)
12. Saeb Erakat: “Arafat Is Interested in a Crisis”
13. Albright’s Intermezzo, Clinton’s Last Push
14. Our Faintest Hour
15. Arafat: “Barak Has Gone beyond My Partner Rabin”
16. Reaping the Fruits of Success
17. Moments of Grace on the Precipice’s Edge
II. A Savage War for Peace
18. “With Our Soul and Blood We’ll Redeem Palestine”
19. Diplomacy under Fire
20. Trapped in No-Win Conditions
21. Neither Inspiring nor Intimidating
22. “Take It or Leave It”: The Clinton Peace Parameters
23. “A Crime against the Palestinian People”
24. Barak in a Cage of Doves
25. Taba: “The Boss Doesn’t Want an Agreement”
26. Post-Mortem
III. 2001–20: A Story of Promise and Deceit
27. The Conversion of the Hawks
a. George W. Bush’s Roadmap (2002–4)
b. Ariel Sharon’s Gaza Unilaterial Withdrawal (2005)
c. The George W. Bush Annapolis Process (2007–8)
28. The Impossible Triangle: Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas
a. The Limits of Obama’s Engagement
b. John Kerry’s Failing Bid
c. Text and Context in Obama’s Peace Initiatives
29. An Uninviting Concept
a. The Geneva Understandings as a Parable
b. Beyond the Parable
30. The Failed “Zionization” of Palestine and the Three-State “Solution”
31. The Region and the World: A Broken Reed
a. The Changing Regional Strategic Game
b. Would America Save the Two-State Solution?
c. An Internationally Led Two-State Solution?
32. The Occupation’s Traits of Permanence
a. Israel’s Quest for Lebensraum
b. The Securitization of Peace
c. Israel’s Dysfunctional Polity
d. What is Wrong with No-Peace Anyway?
IV. Denouements
33. Ominous Unravelings
a. The Specter of the Single BiNational State
b. Unilateral Disengagement: The Alon Plan Redux
c. Unilateral Disengagement: Ehud Olmert’s Version
d. Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century”
34. Exit Oslo, Enter Madrid
V. Defying the Logic of Conflict Resolution
35. Palestine: A Comparative Perspective
a. War as A Prelude to Peace
b. Northern Ireland and Colombia
c. Multidimensional Conflicts
d. The Colonial Paradigm
e. End of Conflict?
f. Refugees
g. Peace and Justice
h. Negotiations, Trust, and Would-Be Mediators
i. Apologia for Political Betrayal
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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