The Olive Branch from Palestine: The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current Impasse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520381308)

The Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about the two-state solution, even in the absence of a fully committed Israeli partner.

In part 1, Jerome Segal provides an analytical and historical study of the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, a remarkable act of unilateral peacemaking through which the PLO accepted the legitimacy of the 1947 Partition Resolution and thereby redefined Palestinian nationalism. In part 2, he proposes a new strategy in which, outside of negotiations, the Palestinians would advance, in full detail, the end-of-claims/end-of-conflict peace plan they are prepared to sign, one that powerfully addresses the Palestinian refugee question and is supported by the refugees themselves yet does not undermine Israel as a Jewish-majority state.

Author: Jerome M. Segal
ISBN-10: 0520381300
ISBN-13: 9780520381308
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2022
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d