The Israeli-Palestinian war : escalating to nowhere / Anthony H. Cordesman with the assistance of Jennifer Moravitz.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is more than a local or regional dispute. Its ongoing and escalating nature increases the risk that the violence will spill over its present borders and contribute to both extremism and terrorism. While the Intifada from 1987 to 1993 was largely a popular uprising an...

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Main Author: Cordesman, Anthony H.
Other Authors: Moravitz, Jennifer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Washington, D.C. : Praeger Security International ; Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2005.
Series:Praeger security international (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • From peace to war: land for peace or settlements for war?
  • From peace to war: terrorism for settlements
  • The final settlement issues: asymmetric values & asymmetric warfare
  • The collapse of the peace process
  • The actors in the conflict: the Israeli Defense Forces
  • The actors in the conflict: the Palestinian factions aligned with the Palestinian Authority
  • The actors in the conflict: the Palestinian factions that challenge peace and the Palestinian Authority
  • The outside actors that have shaped the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • A failed peace becomes an open war
  • Casualty trends and the costs of the war
  • Israeli strategy and tactics: isolation, containment, and the selective use of conventional military power
  • The Palestinian response: the battle for public opinion and the challenge of reforming the Palestinian Authority
  • The course of the conflict in Gaza
  • The course of the conflict in the West Bank and Greater Jerusalem
  • Conflict in Israel proper
  • The continuing hope for peace: the Quartet and the "road map."