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Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land

Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land

Friedman, Thomas L.
Benvenisti, Meron

Hardcover

General Middle Eastern HistoryIsrael & Palestine History

ISBN10: 0520085671
ISBN13: 9780520085671
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Sep 11 1995
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.11
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.81 Depth: 8.47
Language: English
As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for peaceful partition are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Palestine, the only solution that he feels will bring lasting peace.

The seven million people in the territory between Jordan and the Mediterranean are mutually dependent regarding employment, water, land use, ecology, transportation, and all other spheres of human activity. Each side, Benvenisti says, must accept the reality that two national entities are living within one geopolitical entity--their conflict is intercommunal and will not be resolved by population transfers or land partition.

A geographer and historian by training, a man passionately rooted in his homeland, Benvenisti skillfully conveys the perspective of both Israeli and Palestinian communities. He recognizes the great political and ideological resistance to a confederation, but argues that there are Israeli Jews and Palestinians who can envision an undivided land, where attachment to a common homeland is stronger than militant tribalism and segregation in national ghettos. Acknowledging that equal coexistence between Israeli and Palestinian may yet be an impossible dream, he insists that such a dream deserves a place in the current negotiations.

Meron Benvenisti is the Middle East expert to whom Middle East experts go for advice . . . the most oft-quoted and oft-damned analyst in Israel.--from the Foreword by Thomas L. Friedman

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