Table of Contents

Preface ix 1. The Background 1 2. Madrid and Oslo: Years of Hope 38 3. Years of Stagnation 78 4. Ehud Barak and the Collapse of the Peace Process 123 5. Sharon, Bush, and Arafat 181 6. The Web of Relationships 220 7. Peace and Normalization 267 8. Conclusion 305 Notes 315

Promotional Information

In this updated edition of Waging Peace, Itamar Rabinovich once again brilliantly combines the firsthand insight of a diplomat with the analytical rigor of a scholar. I can think of no better guide to lead us through the political imperatives at the root of the Israel-Palestine conflict. -- Henry Kissinger Itamar Rabinovich brings to this topic both the experience of a veteran participant and the skill of a distinguished historian. The result is a fascinating and illuminating narrative and analysis. His added coverage of the events of the last four years is particularly valuable. -- Bernard Lewis, author of "What Went Wrong"

About the Author

Itamar Rabinovich is President of Tel Aviv University and Andrew White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He was Israel's chief negotiator with Syria (1992-1995) and Israel's ambassador to the United States (1993-1996). He is the author of several books, including Syria under the Ba'th; The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations; and The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations (Princeton).

Reviews

"Rabinovich offers a masterful overview without wasting a word."--Foreign Affairs "A keen strategic mind is at work in Waging Peace--dovish but tough, focused on the big picture yet ever attentive to particulars. This eloquent book is essential reading for anyone following the Arab-Israeli peace process."--Mitchell Cohen, New York Time Book Review "[Waging Peace] is calm, dispassionate, impersonal, unusually well-informed... Rabinovich is not a polemicist given to flourishes of rhetoric... [He possesses a] keen strategic mind."--Amos Elon, New York Review of Books "In Waging Peace, Itamar Rabinovich offers a good diplomatic history of how the Israeli-Palestinian peace process unraveled. Ultimately, the former ambassador believes not only that Arafat 'failed the test of leadership' but that the broader Arab world's rejection of normal ties with Israel keeps the door of war perpetually open."--Jerusalem Post