Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo

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On the fortieth anniversary of the Camp David Accords, a groundbreaking new history that shows how Egyptian-Israeli peace ensured lasting Palestinian statelessness For seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace treaty with Egypt that is widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East.

Seth Anziska is the Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations at University College London and a visiting fellow at the U.S./Middle East Project. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Haaretz. He lives in London.

"Winner of the BAJS Book Prize, British Association for Jewish Studies" "This splendid book by a young American Jewish scholar is the product of an early emotional and intellectual transformation . . . His combination of original research and personal fearlessness has produced one of the most compelling works of political and diplomatic history I have ever read . . . Anziska has made a major contribution to the history of this conflict."---Charles Kaiser, The Guardian "[A] deeply researched book.... With access to declassified memos and documents scattered around the world by a succession of shattered peace processes, [Anziska] pieces together a single moment in which the seeds for a diminished Palestinian state were laid."---Mehul Srivastava, Financial Times "A deeply insightful and profoundly disturbing book."---James J. Zogby, Jordan Times "An important corrective to the conventional historiography of the period. . . . It will benefit anyone trying to follow the path to today's bleak impasse."---Ian Black, Middle East Centre Blog, London School of Economics "The book must receive the credit it deserves. Anziska did a very good research job and has collected and pieced together an enormous amount of information, including information derived from newly-declassified American and Israeli records, some of which even an avid consumer of books related to the Middle East peace process like me has not previously seen."---Joel Singer, Fathom "Preventing Palestine is a powerful and at times shocking book that sets the new standard for future work on the peace process after 1975. It is indispensable reading for all students of U.S.-Middle East relations and the history of the Arab Israeli conflict."---Paul Thomas, H-Diplo "Preventing Palestine is a fine work of revisionist historiography on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its evolution."---Lorena De Vita, Diplomatica "Preventing Palestine is an important book for its revisionist interpretation of MiddleEast peacemaking between 1977 and 1993."---Aharon Klieman, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs