| Descript |
848 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: the end -- Why Israelis, Arabs, and Palestinians see the world the way they do -- The road to Madrid -- Rabin, presidential transition, the Syrian pocket and Oslo -- From Oslo to the Palestinian Authority -- The evolution of the Syrian talks -- King Hussein fulfills his grandfather's legacy -- The interim agreement -- The Rabin assassination: would tragedy produce opportunity? -- Was Asad up to it? -- Could the peace process be saved? -- Bibi wins, will peace lose? -- The endless Hebron shuttle -- One last push to settle Hebron -- From breakthrough to stalemate -- The 13 percent solution -- Prelude to Wye -- The Wye Summit -- Bibi surrenders to the right and loses the Israeli public -- Great expectations for Barak -- "Syria's my priority" -- Asad's surprise -- The rise and fall of the Israeli-Syrian deal -- From stalemate to Camp David -- The Camp David Summit -- The denouement: from Camp David to the Intifada to the Clinton ideas -- Learning the lessons of the past and applying them to the future -- Epilogue -- Afterword to the paperback edition -- Appendix. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
""Few people are better qualified to explain how it all went so wrong than Dennis Ross" (The Economist). As the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Ross is that rare figure who is respected by all parties: Democrats and Republicans, Palestinians and Israelis, presidents and people on the street in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Washington, D.C. In The Missing Peace he tells the story of the search for enduring peace in a perpetually troubled region with unprecedented vividness, candor, and insight." "Ross recounts the peace process in detail from 1988 to the breakdown of talks in early 2001 that prompted the so-called second Intifada. It's all here: Camp David, Oslo, Geneva, Egypt, and other summits; the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin; the rise and fall of Binyamin Netanyahu; the very different characters and strategies of Rabin, Yasir Arafat, and Bill Clinton; and the first steps of the Palestinian Authority. For the first time, the backroom negotiations, the dramatic and often secretive nature of the process, and the reasons for its faltering are on display for all to see, through "revealing and, occasionally, surprising portraits of various Israeli and Palestinian leaders" (Glenn Frankel, The Washington Post). Now with a new afterword taking account of recent events, The Missing Peace explains, as no other book has, why Middle East peace remains so elusive. Book jacket."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Peace.
|
|
Israel -- Politics and government -- 1993-
|
|
Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government.
|
|
Ross, Dennis.
|
|
Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States.
|
|
United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.
|
| ISBN |
0374529809 (pbk.) |
|
9780374529802 (pbk.) |
| LC CARD # |
2005285122 |
|
