Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process (Middle East Issues (MEI)) [Paperback]

Graham Usher (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 074531337X | ISBN-13: 978-0745313375 | Publication Date: July 1, 1999

The 1994 Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestinians were hailed as the start of a process that would bring about resolution of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Five years later, Oslo must be judged a failure. For the Arab and Islamic world, Israel remains what it was at the outset of Oslo — a pariah state illegally occupying Arab lands.Gaza-based journalist Graham Usher witnessed many of the pivotal events of the peace process, and his insightful new book gives voice to the people of Palestine. In addition to presenting the views of ordinary individuals on the street, the book includes interviews with many of the leading commentators and figures from Palestinian Hamas and Fatah, Lebanese Hezballah, and Shas (the Sephardic Jews within Israel). Among the key figures interviewed are Azmi Bishara (Arab activist/Israeli citizen running for President), Yossi Beilin (former Israeli Labour Cabinet member) Aryeh Deri (Shas), Marwan Barghouti (Fatah), and Ibrahim Ghoshah (Hamas). The collection also contains longer, analytical pieces that describe the rise of Hamas in the occupied territories; the growing authoritarianism of Yassar Arafat's Palestinian Authority; the politics of Hezballah in Lebanon; and the causes behind the nihilistic violence of the Gamaa Islamiyya in Egypt. Dispatches from Palestine offers the contemporary history of a process that has irreversibly changed the nature of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict — and one whose failure is bound to leave its mark on the region and the world in the future.

Editorial Reviews

Review

‘Usher ... does the best foreign on-the-spot reporting from Palestine.’ --Edward Said, London Review of Books

 

‘The reader vicariously experiences what will become great moments of popular oral history that official historians will forget in the great scheme of things.’ --Middle East International

About the Author

Graham Usher is Palestine correspondent for The Economist, Middle East International and al-Ahram English Weekly. He is the author of Palestine in Crisis (Pluto Press 1995).

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Pluto Press (July 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074531337X
• ISBN-13: 978-0745313375
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,684,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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