Author: Tanya Reinhart
Publisher: LeftWord
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 278
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187496312
Description
This book focuses on the post-Oslo era, and follows Israel’s policies in the three years since Ehud Barak became prime minister, until the summer of 2002 – the darkest period in the history of Israel so far.
As will be seen in the narrative, the shift in Israeli policy at this period was neither a spontaneous reaction to terror nor an act of self-defense, but calculated plans, systematically executed. The book is an updated and expanded version of Detruire la Palestine, ou comment terminer la guerre de 1948, which appeared in French in April 2002 (France: La Fabrique, 2002). Detruire la Palestine examined (inter alia) the development of Israeli plans to destroy the Palestinian Authority. In the period between April 2002 and July 2002, these plans were fully executed.
REVIEWS
Tanya Reinhart’s informative and chilling analysis could hardly have been more timely. It should be read with care and taken very seriously.
-Noam Chomsky
Tanya Reinhart’s Israel /Palestine is the most devastating critique now available of Israel’s policy toward the Polestinian People.
-Edward W Said
Contents
Introduction
THE OSLO YEARS: FALSE EXPECTATIONS
THE CAMP DAVID NEGOTIATIONS: MYTHS AND FACTS
Point of Departure: The Beilin-Abu
Mazen Plan
What Barak Offered at Camp David
The Central Settlement Blocs
Jerusalem
The Rest of the West Bank and Gaza
The Right of Return
THE SYRIA PRECEDENT
The Vision of Peace
Barak’s Peace Speeches
The Shepherdstown Document
The Geneva Summit - The Final Blow
BARAK’S VERSION OF SHARON
OCTOBER 2000-THE SECOND HALF OF 1948
A Holy War
October 2000
The Second Half of 1948
THE FIRST YEAR : ISRAEL’S SLOW ETHNIC CLEANSING
The Policy of Injuries
The Destruction of Palestinian Society
DECEMBER 2001: TOPPLE ARAFAT
The Military Plans
The US Role
APRIL-JUNE 2002: THE RETURN OF MILITARY OCCUPATION
Operation Defensive Shield
Jenin-The Untold Crime
Penal Colonies
WHAT DOES ISRAEL REALLY WANT?
Arafat’s Security Record
The Two Poles in Israel’s Politics
The Rule of the Military
THE WAY OUT
False Expectations, Round II
The Clinton Plan (Taba)
The Dead End of Eternal Negotiations
Immediate Israeli Withdrawal
APPENDIX: THE OSLO APARTHEID
NOTES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR