Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781592133956)

The ongoing violence, despair and paralysis among Israelis and Palestinians resemble the gloomy period in South Africa during the late 1980s. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley show that these analogies with South Africa can be applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for two purposes: to showcase South Africa as an inspiring model for a negotiated settlement and to label Israel a colonial settler state that should be confronted with strategies (sanctions, boycotts) similar to those applied against the apartheid regime. Because of the different historical and socio-political contexts, both assumptions are problematic. Whereas peacemaking resulted in an inclusive democracy in South Africa, the favored solution for Israel and the West Bank is territorial separation into two states. Adam and Moodley speculate on what would have happened in the Middle East had there been what they call a Palestinian Mandela providing unifying moral and strategic leadership in the ethnic conflict. A timely, relevant look at the issues of a polarized struggle, "Seeking Mandela "is an original comparison of South Africa and Israel, as well as an important critique on the nature of comparative politics.

Author: Heribert Adam
ISBN-10: 1592133959
ISBN-13: 9781592133956
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2005
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.77d