MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN
"Israel's Dilemma in Palestine"
By
Ghada Karmi
Two
rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like
a bride, 'beautiful, but married to another man'. By which they
meant that, if a place was to be found for Israel in Palestine,
where would the people of Palestine go? This is a dilemma that
Israel has never been able to resolve.
No
conflict today is more dangerous than that between Israel and the
Palestinians. The Implications it has for regional and global
security cannot be overstated.
The
peace process as we know it is dead and no solution is in sight.
Nor, as this book argues, will that change until everyone involved
in finding a solution accepts the real causes of conflict, and its
consequences on the ground.
Leading writer Ghada Karmi explains in fascinating
detail the difficulties Israel's existence created for the Arab
world and why the search for a solution has been so elusive.
Ultimately, she argues that the conflict will end only once the
needs of both Arabs and Israelis are accommodated equally. Her
startling conclusions overturn conventional thinking – but they are
hard to refute.
