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This volume is an appraisal of the past ten years of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Particularly following Israeli Operation Cast Lead in 2009, prospects for a viable Palestinian state existing alongside a secure and independent Israel seem increasingly out of reach. Nonetheless, peace initiatives remain largely limited to the prevailing two-state solution, without much serious attention paid to that paradigm's feasibility in the aftermath of: the Israeli separation barrier, rampant settlement of the West Bank, the crippling of Palestinian civil society by Israeli economic sanctions (and military campaigns), or growing loyalties among disillusioned Palestinians to militant groups like Hamas. Rather than attempt to articulate a new or more viable peace paradigm, this volume seeks to encourage more informed discussion of the present peace process by elaborating on its limitations in the aftermath of the past ten years. Featuring chapters from scholars of international law, political science, philosophy, history, and Middle East Studies, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to analyze the vicissitudes of the Israel-Palestine conflict over the past ten years, in a truly holistic manner.

Table of Contents

1 Note on Citations
2 Acknowledgments
3 Introduction
Part 4 Part I. The Changing Dynamics of Israeli Political Culture
Chapter 5 1. Who Are the Palestinians?
Chapter 6 2. Deconstructing Israeli Democracy: On the Cultural Prerequisites of Political Modernity
Chapter 7 3. Security-Settlement Complex
Part 8 Part II. 2000 to 2006: Sharon, the Intifada, and the Roadmap
Chapter 9 4. Ariel Sharon's War against the Palestinians
Chapter 10 5. The Building of a Wall
Chapter 11 6. West Bank Settlements Obstruct Peace: Israel's Empire State Building
Chapter 12 7. A Place for our Dream?
Part 13 Part III. 2006 to 2008: Hamas Election Sweep, Gaza Incursions, and the Annapolis Peace Conference
Chapter 14 8. Trials in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Chapter 15 9. Blitzkrieg in Gaza
Chapter 16 10. Who Are the Palestinians Today?
Part 17 Part IV. Gaza in 2009-10: Operation Cast Lead and the Future of the Peace Process
Chapter 18 11. Unjust and Illegal: The Israeli Attack on Gaza
Chapter 19 12. Gaza's Diminishing Landscape
20 Bibliography

Product details

Published 17 Mar 2011
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 186
ISBN 9780739144565
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 239 x 165 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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