Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine
By Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
Two insiders explain why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed – and what may lie ahead.
Drawing on decades of experience advising the Palestinian leadership (Arafat and Abbas) and U.S. presidents (Clinton, Obama, and Biden), veteran negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley offer bracing accounts of how the hopes of the Oslo Peace Process became the horrors of the present.
Through candid portraits of key figures and participation in secret talks, Agha and Malley stress that the two-state solution became a global goal only when it was no longer viable; that U.S. officials preferred technical schemes to a frank reckoning with the past; that Hamas’s onslaught and Israel’s war of destruction were not historical exceptions but historical reenactments; and that the gaps separating Israelis and Palestinians have less to do with territorial allocation than with history and emotions.
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