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Meron Benvenisti
Intimate Enemies
Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land
$50.00, £35.00 hardcover
978-0-520-08567-1
Available Now
250 pages,
September 1995, Available worldwide
Categories: Politics; Middle Eastern Studies; Jewish Studies; Middle Eastern History
September 1995, Available worldwide
Categories: Politics; Middle Eastern Studies; Jewish Studies; Middle Eastern History
Free online edition (eScholarship)--available only to University of California faculty, staff, and students (List of public titles)
"A passionate, well-written and persuasive plea for a radical resolution of what, in the author's view, has been an inevitable confrontation. . . . Benvenisti is brilliant in making his case. . . . Intimate Enemies raises questions that will not soon go away."—Charles Glass, New York Times Book Review
"A sharp-toned analysis of a long-term conflict."—Library Journal
"Insightful study of the political, economic, and psychological dynamics between Israeli Jews and Palestinian and Israeli Arabs. . . . It's clear how knowledgeable and passionately engaged he is in his subject."—Kirkus Reviews
"A sharp-toned analysis of a long-term conflict."—Library Journal
"Insightful study of the political, economic, and psychological dynamics between Israeli Jews and Palestinian and Israeli Arabs. . . . It's clear how knowledgeable and passionately engaged he is in his subject."—Kirkus Reviews
"Few Americans can appreciate the intensity, substance, and complexity of the struggles in Israel without reading this book."—Ian Lustick, president of the Association for Israel Studies
"Honest to a fault, possessed of no illusions, with no ax to grind, Benvenisti has insisted that Israeli and Palestinian should acknowledge the facts of their world. Controversial, a hawk to the Israeli doves, a dove to the hawks, he has gone his own way."—Fouad Ajami, author of The Arab Predicament
"Honest to a fault, possessed of no illusions, with no ax to grind, Benvenisti has insisted that Israeli and Palestinian should acknowledge the facts of their world. Controversial, a hawk to the Israeli doves, a dove to the hawks, he has gone his own way."—Fouad Ajami, author of The Arab Predicament
As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Palestine, the only solution that he feels will bring lasting peace.
The seven million people in the territory between Jordan and the Mediterranean are mutually dependent regarding employment, water, land use, ecology, transportation, and all other spheres of human activity. Each side, Benvenisti says, must accept the reality that two national entities are living within one geopolitical entity—their conflict is intercommunal and will not be resolved by population transfers or land partition.
A geographer and historian by training, a man passionately rooted in his homeland, Benvenisti skillfully conveys the perspective of both Israeli and Palestinian communities. He recognizes the great political and ideological resistance to a confederation, but argues that there are Israeli Jews and Palestinians who can envision an undivided land, where attachment to a common homeland is stronger than militant tribalism and segregation in national ghettos. Acknowledging that equal coexistence between Israeli and Palestinian may yet be an impossible dream, he insists that such a dream deserves a place in the current negotiations.
"Meron Benvenisti is the Middle East expert to whom Middle East experts go for advice . . . the most oft-quoted and oft-damned analyst in Israel."—from the Foreword by Thomas L. Friedman
The seven million people in the territory between Jordan and the Mediterranean are mutually dependent regarding employment, water, land use, ecology, transportation, and all other spheres of human activity. Each side, Benvenisti says, must accept the reality that two national entities are living within one geopolitical entity—their conflict is intercommunal and will not be resolved by population transfers or land partition.
A geographer and historian by training, a man passionately rooted in his homeland, Benvenisti skillfully conveys the perspective of both Israeli and Palestinian communities. He recognizes the great political and ideological resistance to a confederation, but argues that there are Israeli Jews and Palestinians who can envision an undivided land, where attachment to a common homeland is stronger than militant tribalism and segregation in national ghettos. Acknowledging that equal coexistence between Israeli and Palestinian may yet be an impossible dream, he insists that such a dream deserves a place in the current negotiations.
"Meron Benvenisti is the Middle East expert to whom Middle East experts go for advice . . . the most oft-quoted and oft-damned analyst in Israel."—from the Foreword by Thomas L. Friedman
Sacred Landscape, by Meron Benvenisti
City of Stone, by Meron Benvenisti
Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life, by Meron BenvenistiArmy of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948, by Hillel, Cohen
Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, by Zachary Lockman
Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900, by Beshara Doumani
City of Stone, by Meron Benvenisti
Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life, by Meron BenvenistiArmy of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948, by Hillel, Cohen
Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, by Zachary Lockman
Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900, by Beshara Doumani