The Olive Branch from Palestine: The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current Impasse

The Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli—Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about the two—state solution, even in the absence of a fully committed Israeli partner.

In part 1, Jerome Segal provides an analytical and historical study of the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, a remarkable act o...