Leslie Turnberg

Beyond the Balfour Declaration (eBook, ePUB)

The 100-Year Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Preface By The 5th Earl Of Balfour

2017 marks one hundred years since the Balfour Declaration, the landmark letter that expressed the British government's support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. A century later, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians rages on, without prospect of a peace agreement any time soon. This timely book explores why innumerable efforts to resolve the conflict have always failed, and questions how an agreement could ever be reached.

Shedding some much-needed light on many of the misconceptions of the Declaration, this book also navigates the complex history of the situation ever since. Labour peer and medical professor Leslie Turnberg elegantly places this particular conflict within the context of the turmoil in the rest of the Middle East, explaining how they have influenced one another.

At a time of global uncertainties and fears of terrorism, Turnberg offers a balanced look at how best to plot a course amongst shifting alliances and an ever-changing political climate. Why have negotiations between Palestine and Israel consistently broken down? Beyond the Balfour Declaration details what an agreement might look like, and the steps that need to be taken to begin the process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785902550
• Artikelnr.: 48113808

Autorenporträt

After a distinguished career in medicine, Leslie Turnberg turned his attention to the thorny problems of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Professor of Medicine and Dean of the Faculty in the University of Manchester and President of the Royal College of Physicians in London, he uses his experience in research and in large organisations to analyse the reasons behind the inability of the Zionists and Arabs to reach a compromise. Now, as a Labour peer, he focuses on the problems that abound in the Middle East in his interventions in debates in the House of Lords.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1: 1898-1923: Twenty-Five Years of Turmoil
Chapter 2: The Balfour Declaration
Chapter 3: Many Resolutions but No Resolution
Chapter 4: War, Armistice but Few Intimations of Peace
Chapter 5: At the United Nations
Chapter 6: More Wars and Abortive Peace Proposals
Chapter 7: The 1967 War
Chapter 8: The Palestinians
Chapter 9: Anwar Sadat Takes Over in Egypt, 1971
Chapter 10: Rabin, Begin and Sadat
Chapter 11: President Carter and Camp David
Chapter 12: The PLO and War in Lebanon
Chapter 13: More Lost Opportunities
Part II
Introduction: Inching towards Peace
Chapter 14: Tentative Steps towards Oslo
Chapter 15: How Extremists Began to Win the Future
Chapter 16: Peace with Jordan but Not with Syria
Chapter 17: More Faltering Steps towards Peace
Chapter 18: The Road to Camp David II
Chapter 19: Ariel Sharon Elected, 2001
Chapter 20: The Road Map and Unilateral Withdrawal
Chapter 21: Olmert Takes Over, 2006
Chapter 22: The Syrian Track
Chapter 23: Abbas, Netanyahu, Obama and a Roller-Coaster Ride
Chapter 24: In the Eye of the Storm
Chapter 25: Public Pressures and Government Constraints
Chapter 26: External Affairs
Chapter 27: Options for Peace
Chapter 28: What Would a Final Status Agreement Look Like?
Notes
Bibliography
Index