The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003

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Verso, 2006 M09 17 - 248 pages
The Road Map to Nowhere is a devastating and timely book, essential to understanding the current state of the Israel/Palestine crisis and the propaganda that infects its coverage. Based on analysis of information in the mainstream Israeli media, it argues that the current road map has brought no real progress and that, under cover of diplomatic successes, Israel is using the road map to strengthen its grip on the remaining occupied territories. Exploring the Gaza pullout of 2005, the West Bank wall and the collapse of Israeli democracy, Reinhart examines the gap between myth the Israeli leadership’s public affairs achievement that has led the West to believe that a road map is in fact being implementedand bitter reality. Not only has nothing fundamentally changed, she argues, but the Palestinians continue to lose more of their land and are pushed into smaller and smaller enclaves, surrounded by the new wall constructed by Sharon.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Spring 2003 The Road Map Era
11
Winter 2004 The Disengagement Plan
30
Israels Plans for Gaza
48
Winter 20045 The PostArafat Period of Calm
65
Summer 2005 The Gaza Pullout The Role of International Pressure
91
The US Changes its Tune
100
The Gaza Pullout
117
Winter 20056 A Return to the Long War
132
The Palestinian Elections
143
A System of Prisons The Plans Behind the West Bank Wall
157
The Struggle Expanding the Prison Cells
174
2004 and On The Struggle Continues
198
Notes
219
Index
241
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About the author (2006)

Tanya Reinhart was Professor Emeritus of linguistics and media studies at Tel Aviv University, a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, and a guest lecturer at the University of Utrecht. She had a regular column in the largest Israeli daily, Yediot Aharonot, contributed regularly to Counterpunch and Zmag and was the author of Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948, and The Roadmap to Nowhere. She died in 2007.

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