The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine

from WCHagen

This review is based on an advanced reader's edition. Thrall presents a detailed political and diplomatic picture of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with heavy emphasis on the Israeli-US and Palestinian-US diplomatic exchanges. It is unbiased-the positions of both factions are treated with an ev...

from MissPrudence

This book of essays about the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is very interesting reading. The author attempts to be fair about analyzing the costs and benefits to each party of compromising on various key issues. In doing so, he makes a persuasive case that the costs are t...

from oldbookswine

Having lived in Egypt for many years this is a fair and honest book about the conflict. US readers are usually only aware of the Israeli side of the issue. This book follow the history and the efforts to maintain peace. Easy to read, the book is in a series of essays about the conflict under five...

from MichaelLynnSr

Nathan Thrall is a journalist and senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. He lives in Jerusalem and has written extensively about the Arab-Israeli conflict. His first book is not all new material. The first third of the book is new and recaps the history of diplomatic attempts to resol...

from Elliot1822

The peace process that has eluded Israel and Palestine is explored in this new book on the apparently unsolvable Arab-Israeli conflict. Author Nathan Thrall who's a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, offers, under the cloud of "Forcing Compromise" a detailed history of the worlds...