From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of "Peace"

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From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of Peace provides original analysis of how communities have developed coping strategies and created foundations for new forms of political expression, interaction, and mobilization since the 1993 peace deal between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. Its premise is that an historical realism is essential in order to develop a route out of the post-Oslo impasse that incubated and expanded a massive asymmetric power contrast under the auspices of peace. The book brings together experts from Palestine, Israel, and further afield, and from across the disciplines of law, economics, political science, and anthropology to map out and critically assess the impacts and responses to this peace in different geographical and political settings. These innovative analyses also investigate processes that might enable a future to be built based on greater equality and an end to the oppression and violence that currently exists between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (and beyond).

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Fearless and just in time, From the River to the Sea traces the structural and conceptual impact of the now twenty-five year old process known as Oslo. It is an unstinting journey that takes the reader from the triumph of the extreme right inside the green line to the perpetual state of crisis that is life in the Gaza Strip. With interdisciplinary innovation and empirical rigor, this volume is an exceptional cartography of the histories, spaces, subjectivities, and strategies of the Palestinians and Israelis who inhabit the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. It gives us the tools both to understand the ongoing Nakba, or catastrophe, that is Palestinian reality, and to imagine an alternative future -- Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara
This is a brave book on why a peace process was made to fail. Mandy Turner and her colleagues go beyond platitudes about peace to examine how the cards are stacked against a meaningful accord between Israel and Palestinians. The book is a timely reminder of the unforgiving politics that lies behind peacemaking. It is particularly good on how the language around peace is manipulated and used to discipline Palestinians. This volume manages to combine razor-sharp analytical insights with case study material. It is highly recommended. -- Roger Mac Ginty, Durham University

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Mandy Turner is the director of the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem.