A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative

Menachem Klein

September, 2007
Cloth, 256 pages, 3 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13904-5
$29.50 / £20.50

"Recommended." — CHOICE

"Klein’s first-hand account and cogent analysis attests to a positive alternative to the unilateralism and violence that have come to characterize recent Israeli–Palestinian relations." — Nigel Parsons, International Affairs

"Exceptionally interesting and important. An excellent presentation, with full details, of almost all the objective and subjective obstacles that face a settlement of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict, along with concrete suggestions of different ways and tactics to overcome these obstacles." — Baruch Kimmerling, author of The Invention and Decline of Israeliness

"A model of engaged scholarship. Menachem Klein offers a seamless blend of detailed narrative, hard-headed analysis, and idealistic vision. His book gives us an account of an attempt to devise a two-state solution that engages rather than avoids the issues that have divided generations of Israelis and Palestinians." — Nathan J. Brown, professor of political science and international affairs, George Washington University, and author of Palestinian Politics After the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine

"The unofficial Geneva accord of 2003 was a refutation of the endemic despair of the Middle East. Crafted by Israelis and Palestinians, it showed that a peace agreement can be reached if the will exists. With a scholar's critical analysis and an insider's knowledge, Menachem Klein superbly portrays the drama of negotiations, the obstacles, and the achievements. This will be an essential text for anyone interested in the region, or in diplomacy anywhere." — Gershom Gorenberg, author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Menachem Klein is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and was a team member of the Geneva Initiative negotiations of 2003. He has advised both the Israeli government and the Israeli delegation for peace talks with the PLO (2000), and was a fellow at Oxford University and a visiting professor at MIT. Klein is the author of Jerusalem: The Contested City and The Jerusalem Problem: The Struggle for Permanent Status.

Haim Watzman has translated works by David Grossman, Amos Oz, Tom Segev, and other leading Israeli writers and scholars. He is the author of Company C: An American's Life as a Citizen Soldier in Israel and A Crack in the Earth: A Journey Up Israel's Rift Valley.

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