| Title | 3. New-Old Thinking on Palestine |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Ilan Pappe(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0345.04 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0345/chapters/10.11647/obp.0345.04 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Ilan Pappe |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2023-06-26 |
| Long abstract | There is a famous Jewish maxim that people tend to look for a lost key where there is light and not where they lost the key. There is a sense that the diplomatic efforts to end the Israel/Palestine conflict were a search for the key where there was light, but not where it was lost. In this chapter, I will attempt to explain why this was a shot in the dark and why it is still going on, despite its obvious failure. In the second part I will suggest a better location for the lost key and a different pathway towards a solution. We need a Palestinian change of mind, and international endorsement and BDS of such a way forward and then we might even succeed with generating a change from within the Jewish society. When all these elements will be in place, there is a hope for the torn country and its people. |
| Page range | pp. 41–54 |
| Print length | 14 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 1 illustration |
Ilan Pappe, who gave the third Hurndall Memorial Lecture in 2007, was born in Haifa in 1954. He taught in Israeli universities until 2006, when he was forced to leave Israeli academia. He joined the University of Exeter in 2007. He is the Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of twenty books, among them The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007) and On Palestine, with Noam Chomsky (2010).