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Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine

by Hussein Agha

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A history of peace efforts and their limits

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A history of peace efforts and their limits

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley draw on decades of negotiating and advising Palestinian and US leaders to examine how the Oslo process gave way to the present crisis. Their account connects the failures of diplomacy with competing interpretations of history, the role of emotion, and the limits of technical solutions. It also challenges the assumption that disputes over territory alone explain the divide, while placing recent violence in a longer historical pattern. The book combines a political analysis of the peace process with perspectives shaped by the authors’ participation in talks and their proximity to key decision-makers.

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  • Readers interested in the history of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy and the Oslo process
  • Readers seeking analysis informed by the experiences of negotiators and political advisers
  • Readers interested in how history and collective memory shape political conflict

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Israeli-Palestinian peace effortsDiplomacy and political leadershipHistory and collective memoryTerritory, emotion, and conflict

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Two insiders explain why the Israeli-Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters killed more than eleven hundred Israelis and took more than two hundred hostages, prompting an Israeli response that has in turn taken tens of thousands of lives and devastated the Gaza Strip. Why did this happen, and can anything be done to grant peace and justice to Israelis and Palestinians alike?

In Tomorrow Is Yesterday, veteran negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley offer a personal and bracing perspective on how the hopes of the Oslo Peace Process became the horrors of the present. Drawing on their experience advising the Palestinian leadership (Arafat and Abbas) and US presidents (Clinton, Obama, and Biden) and their participation in secret talks over decades, Agha and Malley offer candid portraits of leading figures and an interpretation of the conflict that exposes the delusions of all sides. They stress that the two-state solution became a global goal only when it was no longer viable; that US officials preferred technical schemes to a frank reckoning with the past; that Hamas's onslaught and Israel's war of destruction were not historical exceptions but historical reenactments; and that the gaps separating Israelis and Palestinians have less to do with territorial allocation than with history and emotions.

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