Preventing Palestine

In Preventing Palestine Seth Anziska, a scholar of Hebrew and Jewish studies at University College London, offers a penetrating examination of the motivations of the major political players—the Egyptians, the U.S. government, and the American Jewish lobby—in preventing the formation of a Palestinian state. Anziska places his work within scholarship on the issue by arguing that his examination fills a missing piece of the story of Palestinian statelessness. He directly challenges the pervading interpretation of the 1978 Camp David Accords as a diplomatic success and instead insists that a more careful examination of the process reveals that Israeli insistence on autonomy for Palestinians and not statehood (and the subsequent de facto acceptance of this by Egypt, Jordan, and the United States) became the ultimate preventer of Palestinian statehood. Ultimately, he argues that “certain avenues for sovereignty were closed down in the [peace and negotiation] process, and the effect—if not the

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