The Olive Branch from Palestine, Jerome M. Segal
The Olive Branch from Palestine, Jerome M. Segal
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The Olive Branch from Palestine
The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current Impasse

Author: Jerome M. Segal

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davis

Unabridged: 12 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/03/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about the two-state solution, even in the absence of a fully committed Israeli partner.

In part 1, Jerome Segal provides an analytical and historical study of the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, a remarkable act of unilateral peacemaking through which the PLO accepted the legitimacy of the 1947 Partition Resolution and thereby redefined Palestinian nationalism. In part 2, he proposes a new strategy in which, outside of negotiations, the Palestinians would advance, in full detail, the end-of-claims/end-of-conflict peace plan they are prepared to sign, one that powerfully addresses the Palestinian refugee question and is supported by the refugees themselves yet does not undermine Israel as a Jewish-majority state.

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Reviews

In a change of style from my previous readings, this essay on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the failed Palestinian independence process, caught my eye. I knew that this is a delicate and multi-faceted issue, in which time passign by, only worsens the conditions for negotiation between the two......more

Goodreads review by Diane

Thank you to NetGalley and Deyan Audio for the advance audio copy of this title in exchange for an honest review. I received this book after it had already been published. It took me a while to get through it. I was hoping that it would provide some education on the history of the “impasse”, as the s......more

Goodreads review by Dezirah

The Olive Branch from Palestine by The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current Impasse by Jerome M Segal Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies Thank you to #Netgalley and University of California Press for the audiobook. This is an expansive and well written history and po......more

Goodreads review by Jess

I had originally assumed that this was a history book regarding the Palestinian peace talks and/or a multi-faceted approach to peace. I found it to be more memoir-esque, an odd mix of history, though mostly in context of the author's part in the process. I understand he had first-hand experience, bu......more