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In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: confrontation. Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions and state-building efforts. The conventional story is that these well-meaning attempts at peacemaking were repeatedly thwarted by the use of violence. Through a rich interweaving of reportage, historical narrative and forceful analysis, Nathan Thrall presents a startling counter-history. He shows that Israelis and Palestinians have persistently been marching toward partition, but not through the high politics of diplomacy or the incremental building of a Palestinian state. In fact, negotiation, collaboration and state-building--the prescription of successive American administrations--have paradoxically entrenched the conflict in multiple ways. They have created the illusion that a solution is at hand, lessened Israel's incentives to end its control over the West Bank and Gaza and undermined Palestinian unity. Ultimately, it is those who have embraced confrontation through boycotts, lawsuits, resolutions imposed by outside powers, protests, civil disobedience, and even violence who have brought about the most significant change. Published as Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza reaches its fiftieth year, which is also the centenary of the Balfour Declaration that first promised a Jewish national home in Palestine, The Only Language They Understand advances a bold thesis that shatters ingrained positions of both left and right and provides a new and eye-opening understanding of this most vexed of lands.
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HISTORY / Middle East / Israel, Jewish-Arab relations, Palestinian arabs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Arab-Israeli conflict, Palestinian Arabs, History, Arab-israeli conflict, Jewish-arab relations, Israel, ethnic relations, Palestinian Arabs -- Israel -- History, Palestinian arabs -- Israel -- HistoryPlaces
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
May 15, 2018, Picador
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The only language they understand: forcing compromise in Israel and Palestine
2017, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
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