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This is an incisive analysis of where Palestinians and Israelis are, eight years on from the Oslo Accords of 1993, and the possible avenues to a just and durable peace. It lays out the causes of the Second Intifada and argues that this new rising shows that there can be no peace without injustice. Israel may not yet have reached the point where, a decade ago, President de Klerk recognized this fact for South Africa, but the same hard choices must one day be made. Marwan Bishara shows how the asymmetry of power between Palestinians and Israelis was ignored by patrons of the Oslo "peace process" - notably the United States. The ill-conceived transition process degenerated into the fragmented and dependent apartheid statelet that exists today in the West Bank and Gaza. The Oslo process was in fact doomed from the start. The seven accords that have been signed have produced seven years of prosperity for Israelis, and seven years of collapsing economy and increasingly impossible living conditions for Palestinians.

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A radical critique from an Israeli Palestinian, 2 Aug 2002

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Written by a palestinian arab academic with israeli
citizenship, brother of a well known arab member of the
Knesset, this short and angry book openly opposes the
Oslo peace process as an imbalaced process that
basically resulted in the deepening of an apartheid status quo
in Palestine/Israel. The author clearly favours a united
Palestine/Israel, a country for both arab and jew, with a
one-man-one-vote basis, and no specific ethnic claims to it
(be it jewish or otherwise), although he knows this utopia
is probably unrealizable in the forseable future. But, as he
cautions is fellow jewish countrymen, if Israelis don't find
their de Gaulle soon, it's better they start looking for their
de Klerk...

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