From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of 'Peace' provides original analyses of how different coping strategies were developed as well as new forms of political expression, interaction, and mobilization since the 1993 peace deal between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. Its premise is that an historical realism is essential in order to develop a route out of the post-Oslo impasse that extended and solidified the power imbalance under the auspices of 'peace'. The book includes chapters from experts across the disciplines of anthropology, economics, law, political science and sociology to map out and critically assess the impacts and responses to this 'peace' in different geographical and political settings. These innovative analyses also investigate processes that might enable a future to be built based on greater equality and an end to the oppression and violence that currently exists between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (and beyond).
Mandy Turner is the director of the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem.
Introduction: From The River to the Sea: Charting the Changes in Palestine and Israel Since 1993 Mandy Turner Chapter 1. The Oslo Agreements - What Happened? Diana Buttu Chapter 2. The Localization of the Palestinian National Political Field Jamil Hilal Chapter 3. Lost in Transition: The Palestinian National Movement After Oslo Tariq Dana Chapter 4. The Structural Transformation of the Palestinian Economy after Oslo Raja Khalidi (With Tables 1, 2, and 3) Chapter 5. The Politics of Exclusion of Palestinians in Israel Since Oslo: Between the Local and the National Mansour Nasasra Chapter 6: A New Nationalistic Political Grammar: Jewish-Israeli Society 25 Years After Oslo Yonatan Mendel Chapter 7. From Singapore to the Stone Age: The Gaza Strip and the Political Economy of Crisis Toufic Haddad Chapter 8. Occupied East Jerusalem Since the Oslo Accord: Isolation and Evisceration Mansour Nasasra Chapter 9. The Politics of Being "Ordinary": Palestinian Refugees in Jordan After the Oslo Agreement Luigi Achilli Chapter 10. No "Plan B" Because "Plan A" Cannot fail: The Oslo Framework and Western Donors in the OPT, 1993-2017 Mandy Turner (with Graphs 1, 2, 3, and 4) Chapter 11. The Single State Solution: Vision, Obstacles and Dilemmas of a Re-Emergent Alternative in Flux Cherine Hussein
From the River to the Sea examines the current context of various communities in Israel/Palestine more than twenty-five years after the Oslo Accords. * Journal of Palestine Studies * From the River to the Sea is a rigorously analytical work that focuses on key aspects of what has happened to Palestinians over the past quarter of a century, especially those living under Israeli occupation. * LSE Middle East Centre Blog * Fearless and just in time, From the River to the Sea traces the structural and conceptual impact of the now twenty-five year old process known as Oslo. It is an unstinting journey that takes the reader from the triumph of the extreme right inside the green line to the perpetual state of crisis that is life in the Gaza Strip. With interdisciplinary innovation and empirical rigor, this volume is an exceptional cartography of the histories, spaces, subjectivities, and strategies of the Palestinians and Israelis who inhabit the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. It gives us the tools both to understand the ongoing Nakba, or catastrophe, that is Palestinian reality, and to imagine an alternative future -- Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara This is a brave book on why a peace process was made to fail. Mandy Turner and her colleagues go beyond platitudes about peace to examine how the cards are stacked against a meaningful accord between Israel and Palestinians. The book is a timely reminder of the unforgiving politics that lies behind peacemaking. It is particularly good on how the language around 'peace' is manipulated and used to discipline Palestinians. This volume manages to combine razor-sharp analytical insights with case study material. It is highly recommended. -- Roger Mac Ginty, Durham University At a time when the peace process is dead, and Palestinians are under extreme pressure to accept the truncated Bantustan 'state' that Israel is imposing on them, Mandy Turner's edited collection is vital for understanding the unfolding events since Oslo. Documenting different coping strategies adopted by the Palestinians and new political directions developed over the past 25 years, the volume not only reveals how we reached the current impasse, but also provides possible routes out of it. It is a must read. -- Neve Gordon, professor of international law at Queen Mary University of London and author of Israel's Occupation A superbly edited collection of first-rate critical essays on the multiple failures and flaws of the Oslo 'peace process' and the diplomatic framework it relied upon. This volume explains better than any the why and how of Palestinian victimization and Israeli expansionism over the course of the past 25 years. But it also offers hope by its portrayal of the resilience, resistance, and political responses of Palestinian communities. -- Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University Can anything new really be written about the century-old conflict over Palestine? This book proves that it can: Each of its contributors provides fresh analysis and new insights that make it a must-read for both expert and novice. It achieves this remarkable result because of its approach, which is both broad and focused. It is wide-ranging within and across fields of study to enable a grasp of the social, economic, and political fall-out resulting from the 1993 Declaration of Principles. And it zeros in on specific communities and the strategies they have evolved to deal with, and go beyond, those outcomes. By so doing, it also offers hope for those working tirelessly to move beyond what the book's editor Mandy Turner dubs a "colonial peace" and towards freedom and justice. -- Nadia Hijab, Board President, Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network "From the River to the Sea engages with the situated lived politics of Palestinians and Israelis from Oslo to the present. In showing how local social formations interact with larger geopolitical processes, this edited collection paints the contours of a new political horizon." -- Eyal Weizman, University of London
