There will be no Palestinian State: A Diary of a Negotiator in Palestine

‘I bought an El Al Israel airline ticket.

Destination: Ben Gurion airport, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Sixty years ago, my mother was born a few dozen kilometres away, in Haifa, Palestine.’

So begins the story of the ‘return’ of Ziyad Clot, grandson of Palestinian exiles. In 2007, he accepted a position as legal advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Ramallah and became a negotiator, taking part in the talks that were to lead to the creation of the Palestinian state by the end of 200...