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Author Karpin, Michael I., author

Title Imperfect compromise : a new consensus among Israelis and Palestinians / Michael Karpin
Edition 1st ed
Published Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2013]

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Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Author's Note; PART I A POST-ZIONIST ANALYSIS; 1 Historical Correction; 2 Without Compassion; 3 The Messiah Is Back; 4 The Original Sin; 5 "Jewish and Democratic" or "State of All Its Citizens"; PART II AS ARABS PUSH FOR A SETTLEMENT, ISRAEL PLAYS FOR TIME; 6 War and Peace; 7 "They Had Learned Nothing from History"; 8 Impotent Leadership; 9 Secular Messianism; 10 The Demographic Threat; 11 A Bulldozer That Built and Destroyed; PART III PALESTINIAN PRAGMATISM: INSTEAD OF TERROR, PASSIVE CIVIL RESISTANCE; 12 Two Palestines
13 Softening the Hardest14 A Palestinian Easy to Like; 15 The Right of Return; PART IV BEYOND PROVINCIALITY: FACING EXTERNAL FACTORS; 16 Delayed Ignition; 17 A State of Isolation; 18 Iran-Two Scenarios, One Realistic; 19 The Bomb Is Still in the Basement; 20 Post-Assad; 21 The Next Cycle; 22 Critical Mass; 23 Apology and Compensation; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary The Middle East is now in the eye of a storm. But as this storm abates, an opportunity for peace and progress has emerged. In Imperfect Compromise, Michael Karpin, an Israeli broadcast journalist, presents a new thesis about the Middle East peace settlement. He lays out an optimistic forecast: The violent conflict between Arabs and Jews that has had the greatest negative impact on world peace since the end of the Cold War is moving steadily toward resolution. Moreover, since the first Zionists settled on the shore of the Lake of Galilee a hundred years ago, the relations between Arabs and Jew
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Peace.
Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government -- 1993-
Zionism.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Peace
Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government
Politics and government
Zionism
Nahostkonflikt
Friede
SUBJECT Israel -- Politics and government -- 1993- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96011929
Subject Israel
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012043913
ISBN 9781612345468
1612345468