A Modest Proposal...: .. to solve the Palestine-Israel Conflict

by Karl Sabbagh

In this important short book, Karl Sabbagh, a British-Palestinian writer, proposes a solution to the 100-year-old Palestine-Israel conflict. It is often said that this conflict, a running sore in international politics, is 'too complicated' for most people to understand. Sabbagh shows the opposite – that the conflict and its solution are surprisingly simple to understand and to carry out. What this book offers is a vision of a single state between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean, with equal rights for all its inhabitants, no loss of citizenship or residence for Israelis or Palestinians, and a novel solution to the right of return of Palestinian refugees. Written in a lively style, and informed by a lifetime of study of the issue, this book could form a breakthrough in the cycle of violence and 'peace talks' and more violence.

160 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 15, 2018

About the author

​Karl Sabbagh, founder and managing director of Skyscraper Publications, has written nearly a dozen books, ranging across topics as diverse as architecture, psychology, history, mathematics, fraud, Victorian boys’ papers, and the Middle East.​​ Some of his books are derived from major television documentary series he produced and directed; others are pieces of original non-fiction for a general readership. ​

From 2010 to 2012, he was managing director of Hesperus Press, an independent British publisher of minor classics, fiction in translation, and some original non-fiction. While at Hesperus, he acquired the UK rights to The Hundred-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, which has so far sold over 500,000 copies in the UK alone.
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Skyscraper's unique programme draws on Karl's extensive experience as both author and publisher.