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04220aam a2200493 i 4500 001 44325E24475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 161202t20172017nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016036968 020 $a 1627797092 020 $a 9781627797092 035 $a (OCoLC)950448699 040 $a DGU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DGU $d DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JSE $d A7U $d JP3 $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-is--- 050 00 $a DS119.7 $b .T487 2017 082 00 $a 956.9405/5 $2 23 100 1 $a Thrall, Nathan, $e author. 245 14 $a The only language they understand : $b forcing compromise in Israel and Palestine / $c Nathan Thrall. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, $c 2017. 300 $a x, 323 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-307) and index. 505 0 $a I. Forcing compromise. The only language they understand -- II. Domination : Israeli conquest and its justifications. Feeling good about feeling bad -- Going native -- III. Collaboration : easing occupation as a failed strategy of liberation. Our man in Palestine -- Palestinian paralysis -- The end of the Abbas era -- IV. Confrontation : Palestinian pressure and its limits. Not popular enough -- Rage in Jerusalem -- Hamas's chances -- Trapped in Gaza -- V. Negotiation : "political horizons" and other euphemisms for false hope. More than one state, less than two -- Faith-based diplomacy -- Obama's Palestine legacy. 520 $a In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: confrontation. Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions and state-building efforts. The conventional story is that these well-meaning attempts at peacemaking were repeatedly thwarted by the use of violence. Through a rich interweaving of reportage, historical narrative and forceful analysis, Nathan Thrall presents a startling counter-history. He shows that Israelis and Palestinians have persistently been marching toward partition, but not through the high politics of diplomacy or the incremental building of a Palestinian state. In fact, negotiation, collaboration and state-building--the prescription of successive American administrations--have paradoxically entrenched the conflict in multiple ways. They have created the illusion that a solution is at hand, lessened Israel's incentives to end its control over the West Bank and Gaza and undermined Palestinian unity. Ultimately, it is those who have embraced confrontation through boycotts, lawsuits, resolutions imposed by outside powers, protests, civil disobedience, and even violence who have brought about the most significant change. Published as Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza reaches its fiftieth year, which is also the centenary of the Balfour Declaration that first promised a Jewish national home in Palestine, The Only Language They Understand advances a bold thesis that shatters ingrained positions of both left and right and provides a new and eye-opening understanding of this most vexed of lands. 650 0 $a Arab-Israeli conflict. 650 0 $a Jewish-Arab relations. 650 0 $a Palestinian Arabs $z Israel $x History. 650 7 $a Arab-Israeli conflict. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812220 650 7 $a Jewish-Arab relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00983106 650 7 $a Palestinian Arabs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01051590 651 7 $a Israel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204236 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 7 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013214.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529012354.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006105207.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802025408.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20170726013513.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20170701010050.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20170628011207.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=44325E24475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search