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After the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Pakistan's then President Pervez Musharraf declared: "The Palestinian front is affecting the entire Muslim world. All terrorists and militant activity in the world today has been initiated because of the Palestinian problem. This is because of the sense of hopelessness, alienation, and powerlessness."
The decade following the aftermath of September 11th has only proven that a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East and a resolve to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are a crucial necessity to global stability.
In this well-researched and thoroughly-documented work, Professor Dennis J. Deeb II objectively aims to provide both a historical narrative of the events surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a historiography exploring the failures to achieve the end result of a final settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What went wrong with peace? This book explores the issues of contention that must be resolved between the parties to reach a lasting settlement.
List of contents
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 Palestine Under Ottoman Rule
CHAPTER 2 The Origins of Conflict: Israel And The Palestinians
CHAPTER 3 From Algiers To Oslo
CHAPTER 4 Failure At Camp David And The Collapse of Oslo
CHAPTER 5 Resurrecting The Oslo Accords: The Mitchell Report
CHAPTER 6 Israel's Policy Of Unilateral Disengagement
CHAPTER 7 Palestinian Elections And New Tensions With Israel
CHAPTER 8 The Road Map To Peace And Alternatives To Oslo
CHAPTER 9 Why Oslo Failed: A Historiography
CHAPTER 10 The U.S. As Mediator: Is Peace Possible?
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX 1 United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338
APPENDIX 2 The Oslo Peace Accords: Declaration of Principles, 1993
BIBLIOGRAPHY
About the author
Dennis J. Deeb II is an adjunct professor of history and government at Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown, Massachusetts and a political science instructor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. Deeb has appeared in Who's Who in America in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Deeb's extensive educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice and political science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a Master's degree in political science from Suffolk University, a Master's degree in education curriculum and instruction from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and a Master's degree in history from Salem State University.
Summary
This book objectively aims to provide both a historical narrative of the events surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a historiography exploring the failures to achieve a final settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. It explores the issues of contention that must be resolved to reach a lasting settlement.
