Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995 to 2002

by Charles Enderlin

As Middle-East Bureau Chief of the French Public television network and a resident of Jerusalem since 1968, Charles Enderlin has had unequaled access to leaders and negotiators on all sides. Here he takes the reader step-by-step along the path that began with the hope of agreement but led only to the ultimate collapse of the peace process. The dramatic account moves between the occupied territories and the negotiation tables as it follows the emotional shifts in the conflict from the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin to the years when Benjamin Netenyahu was in power. In a definitive account of the meetings at Camp David in July 2000, Enderlin details what was said between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators brought together by Bill Clinton in the presence of Yasir Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Genres: Politics

480 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2003

Reviews

[A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exhaustive account of the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. 20 years after this event, it has now become abundantly clear that the peace process has lost all efficacy. This book provides a moving epitaph for the peace process, one matching in sympathy and genuine regret those spoken in the name of Rabin at his funeral. The author is supremely even-handed with his analyses, and sharply rejects the sort of biased blame-placing that characterizes most accounts of the failure of the peace process. Highly recommended.