Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo

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On the fortieth anniversary of the Camp David Accords, a groundbreaking new history that shows how Egyptian-Israeli peace ensured lasting Palestinian statelessness For seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace treaty with Egypt that is widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East.

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"Winner of the BAJS Book Prize, British Association for Jewish Studies"
"This splendid book by a young American Jewish scholar is the product of an early emotional and intellectual transformation . . . His combination of original research and personal fearlessness has produced one of the most compelling works of political and diplomatic history I have ever read . . . Anziska has made a major contribution to the history of this conflict."---Charles Kaiser, The Guardian
"[A] deeply researched book. With access to declassified memos and documents scattered around the world by a succession of shattered peace processes, [Anziska] pieces together a single moment in which the seeds for a diminished Palestinian state were laid."---Mehul Srivastava, Financial Times
"A deeply insightful and profoundly disturbing book."---James J. Zogby, Jordan Times
"An important corrective to the conventional historiography of the period. . . . It will benefit anyone trying to follow the path to today's bleak impasse."---Ian Black, Middle East Centre Blog, London School of Economics
"The book must receive the credit it deserves. Anziska did a very good research job and has collected and pieced together an enormous amount of information, including information derived from newly-declassified American and Israeli records, some of which even an avid consumer of books related to the Middle East peace process like me has not previously seen."---Joel Singer, Fathom
"Preventing Palestine is a powerful and at times shocking book that sets the new standard for future work on the peace process after 1975. It is indispensable reading for all students of U.S.-Middle East relations and the history of the Arab Israeli conflict."---Paul Thomas, H-Diplo
"Preventing Palestine is a fine work of revisionist historiography on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its evolution."---Lorena De Vita, Diplomatica
"Preventing Palestine is an important book for its revisionist interpretation of MiddleEast peacemaking between 1977 and 1993."---Aharon Klieman, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

Author Bio

Seth Anziska is the Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations at University College London and a visiting fellow at the U.S./Middle East Project. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Haaretz. He lives in London.