Seeking Mandela : peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians

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Title:

Author:

Adam, Heribert.

ISBN:

9781592133963

9781592133956

Personal Author:

Adam, Heribert.

Publication Information:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2005.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Series:

Politics, history, and social change

Series Title:

Politics, history, and social change

Contents:

Preface : reflections on moral literacy -- Introduction : political travel through the Holy Land -- 1. Controversial issues in overview -- 2. Nationalism, patriotism, and multiculturalism revisited -- 3. A brief history of South Africa and apartheid -- 4. The problematic Israel-South Africa analogy -- 5. Visions of endgame -- 6. Collective memories : how democracies deal with the crimes of previous regimes -- 7. The politics of reconciliation and transitional justice -- 8. An Israeli-Palestinian truth commission? -- Solutions revisited and lessons drawn.

Subject Term:

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Apartheid.

Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- Israel.

Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- South Africa.

Geographic Term:

Israel -- Politics and government.

South Africa -- Politics and government.

Added Author:

Moodley, Kogila.

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Summary

The ongoing violence, despair and paralysis in Israel/Palestine resembles a similar gloomy mood in South Africa during the late 1980s. Analogies with the South African case are increasingly applied to Israel/Palestine for two different purposes: to showcase South Africa as an inspiring model for a negotiated settlement and to label Israel a colonial settler state that should be confronted with similar strategies (sanctions, boycott) as applied against the apartheid regime. Both assumptions are problematic, because of the different historical and socio-political contexts. Peacemaking resulted in an inclusive democracy in South Africa, while territorial separation in two states is widely hailed as the solution in Israel/Palestine. However, a viable Palestinian state is undermined by Jewish settler expansionism and separation barriers on occupied land.