The Impossibility of Palestine: History, Geography, and the Road Ahead
Mehran Kamrava
Abstract
The “two-state solution” is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike. However, this book argues that Israel's “state-building” process has never risen above the level of municipal governance, and its goal has never been Palestinian independence. It explains that a coherent Palestinian state has already been rendered an impossibility and, to move forward, Palestine must redefine its present predicament and future aspirations. The book covers the history of Palestine, the process and consequences of Palestine's territorial dismembe ... More
Keywords: two-state solution, Israel, United States, United Nations, Palestinian Authority, state building, Palestine
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300215625 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300215625.001.0001 |
