End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After - Hardcover

Said, Edward W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375409300 ISBN 13: 9780375409301

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 2000

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Book by Said Edward W

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A collection of essays by one of the nation's most respected authorities on the Middle East cuts through the rhetoric of the peace process to show the realities on the ground in the Middle East since Oslo. 12,500 first printing.

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rtant collection of fifty pieces, Edward Said questions the very foundations of the Oslo accords. Signed in September 1993 on the White House lawn by Israel and the PLO, the accords were immediately hailed as a success and a breakthrough for peace in the Middle East, but Said realized that the imbalance of power between the signees would set up a problematic dynamic, bringing only an illusionary stability. The later interim agreements of Taba, Hebron, and the Wye Plantation would already limit the next phase -- the final-status negotiations set to conclude this year, when the future condition of refugees, Jerusalem, borders, water and compensations must be decided.

Incisively cutting through the hyperbole in the press surrounding the accords, these pieces document the historic content but also give otherwise unreported accounts of what has really gone on in the occupied territory since the signing. The continuing expansion of Israeli settlements, the repressive leadership and inflated bur

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375409300
• ISBN 13: 9780375409301
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 345