No End of Conflict

Yossi Alpher explains how Israel entered its current situation of growing international isolation, political stalemate, and gathering messianic political influence. He investigates the inability of Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and end their conflict before suggesting ways to moderate and soften the worst aspects of the situation.

Yossi Alpher explains how Israel entered its current situation of growing international isolation, political stalemate, and gathering messianic political influence. He investigates the inability of Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and end their conflict before suggesting ways to moderate and soften the worst aspects of the situation.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMaps:1. Israel, Palestinian territories, surrounding states;2. Areas A, B and C in the West Bank;3. Jerusalem West and East (as defined by Israel's 1967 annexation)Chapter 1: Rachel, or the Arab-Jewish dividePart I: Contemporary IsraelChapter 2: After nearly 50 years of occupation: how the world increasingly sees IsraelChapter 3: The emerging social-political-demographic challenge to Israeli internal cohesivenessChapter 4: The global Jewish factor: the Diaspora, anti-SemitismChapter 5: The region: dealing with a bad neighborhoodChapter 6: Resolving the Palestinian issue 1936 to 2009: a dynamic of failureChapter 7: Lessons from Kerry's failure and the American rolePart II: Israel TomorrowChapter 8: Are there alternative ways to muddle through?Chapter 9: On the slippery slope toward a bi-national IsraelChapter 10: Summarizing the strategic ramifications of the quasi-apartheid schemesChapter 11: Are there radical alternative realities?