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“Israel/Palestine is the most devastating critique now available of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinian people.”—Edward W. Said
“Dense and precise.”—Agnés Gruda, La Presse
“Reinhart accomplishes the formidable task of adding insight to a subject that is written about endlessly.”—The Nation
As the mortar sets on the first sections of Israel’s security fence, international scrutiny has brought the legality of the barrier before The Hague. In this updated edition of a popular seller, Israeli scholar Tanya Reinhart extends her critique to the most recent chapter of this decades-old conflict, exploring the history of the contested region and casting the barrier—which the World Bank has estimated might isolate 250,000 Palestinians and annex 10 percent of West Bank land—as a stark symbol of the conflict itself.
In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier, and Israel’s new doctrine of “disengagement,” launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including U.S--brokered accords, and talks at Camp David, Oslo and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the negotiating parties, and identifies Israel’s strategy of creating facts on the ground to define and complicate the terms of any future settlement.
In this indispensable primer, Reinhart’s searing insight illuminates the current conflict and suggests a path toward change.
Tanya Reinhart is a professor of linguistics and cultural studies at Tel Aviv University and at the University of Utrecht. She is most well known academically for her contribution to theoretical linguistics. In 1994, following the Oslo agreements, which she viewed as a painful deception of the Palestinian people and the ratification of a sophisticated Apartheid regime, she turned to political writing. She has had a regular critical column in Israel’s largest daily, Yediot Aharonot, and her writings have appeared in print around the world.
| I | The Oslo years : false expectations | 13 |
| II | The Camp David negotiations : myths and facts | 21 |
| III | The Syria precedent | 61 |
| IV | Barak's version of Sharon | 78 |
| V | October 2000 - "the second half of 1948" | 88 |
| VI | The first year : Israel's slow ethnic cleansing | 112 |
| VII | December 2001 : "topple Arafat" | 129 |
| VIII | April-June 2002 : the return of military occupation | 143 |
| IX | What does Israel really want? | 181 |
| X | The way out | 208 |
| App | The Oslo apartheid | 236 |
Overview
“Israel/Palestine is the most devastating critique now available of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinian people.”—Edward W. Said
“Dense and precise.”—Agnés Gruda, La Presse
“Reinhart accomplishes the formidable task of adding insight to a subject that is written about endlessly.”—The Nation
As the mortar sets on the first sections of Israel’s security fence, international scrutiny has brought the legality of...