Bishara, Marwan. Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid.

Bishara, Marwan. Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid. London, U.K.: Zed Books, 2002. Hardcover $17.50.

The author compares Israel to Apartheid in South Africa and presents a rigorous argument regarding how the 1993 Oslo process consecrated Apartheid in Israel. He faults the U.S. primarily for not arriving at a just and peaceful solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The U.S. is not an honest broker, Bishara contends, because of its bias towards Israel. The Apartheid nature of Israel may be seen in its treatment of the Palestinians who did not leave in 1948 as well as its treatment of the Palestinians in the territories occupied in the 1967 war. Bishara argues that Israel is not ready for decolonization or for transforming itself from an exclusivist state to a fully democratic one, living in peace with its neighbors. The second Intifada broke out because of the impasse in negotiations generated by the biased role of the U.S. and Israeli government policies relating to the Palestinian Authority (PA). But its roots are deeply ingrained in the occupation. Bishara writes in some detail about Oslo, and the policies of successive Israeli governments. In this regard he deals with the successive Israeli Prime Ministers and why they did not offer the...