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Peace for Palestine : first lost opportunity

Title: Peace for Palestine : first lost opportunity / Elmer Berger.
Author: Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996.
Publication: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1993.

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Description

xv, 287 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

At the outset of the 1949 armistice negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors, acting UN mediator Ralph Bunche expressed his hope that the talks would "chart the road to a peace for Palestine," an outcome apparently as elusive today as when he spoke those words more than forty years ago. Perhaps the most significant aspect of this meticulously documented analysis of those negotiations is its relevance for today's headlines. Relating the proposals and counterproposals, the conspiracies and power plays to present-day Israeli and Middle East policies, Elmer Berger suggests that the basic negotiating strategies of the main players have persisted almost unchanged into the present, a "near rigidity" that has defeated all efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East's central conflict. Berger is a controversial rabbi, an avowed anti-Zionist who proves himself capable of examining highly flammable issues and events with objectivity, insight, and rigorous scholarship. Drawing upon newly released material from official Israeli and U.S. archives, Berger manages to paint both the large picture and the telling detail - the frustrations of the conscientious and highly respected Bunche, the pathetically unprepared Arab negotiators, the well-informed Israeli diplomats, the intrigue of the Israel-Transjordan alliance. The work will serve serious observers of the prolonged conflict over Palestine as a guide to applicable international law and to the attitudes and negotiating policies of the countries involved.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Sources.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-274) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Don Peretz -- 1. Original Sins and Present Motives -- 2. History, Sources, Law -- 3. The Starting Point -- Paris, 1919 -- 4. Partition -- Less than Half the Loaf -- 5. Warring Their Way to "Peace" -- 6. First Try for Peace -- With Egypt -- 7. Lebanon -- 8. Transjordan -- 9. Scorning Syria -- 10. Entr'acte -- 11. Epilogue.

ISBN

0813012074
9780813012070

LCCN

92045726

OCLC

ocm27434854
27434854
SCSB-1994499

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library