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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the BAJS Book Prize, British Association for Jewish Studies"
"This splendid book by a young American Jewish scholar is the product of an early emotional and intellectual transformation . . . His combination of original research and personal fearlessness has produced one of the most compelling works of political and diplomatic history I have ever read . . . Anziska has made a major contribution to the history of this conflict."
---Charles Kaiser, The Guardian"[A] deeply researched book…. With access to declassified memos and documents scattered around the world by a succession of shattered peace processes, [Anziska] pieces together a single moment in which the seeds for a diminished Palestinian state were laid."
---Mehul Srivastava, Financial Times"A deeply insightful and profoundly disturbing book."
---James J. Zogby, Jordan Times"An important corrective to the conventional historiography of the period. . . . It will benefit anyone trying to follow the path to today's bleak impasse."
---Ian Black, Middle East Centre Blog, London School of Economics"The book must receive the credit it deserves. Anziska did a very good research job and has collected and pieced together an enormous amount of information, including information derived from newly-declassified American and Israeli records, some of which even an avid consumer of books related to the Middle East peace process like me has not previously seen."
---Joel Singer, Fathom"Preventing Palestine is a powerful and at times shocking book that sets the new standard for future work on the peace process after 1975. It is indispensable reading for all students of U.S.-Middle East relations and the history of the Arab Israeli conflict."
---Paul Thomas, H-Diplo"
Preventing Palestine is a fine work of revisionist historiography on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its evolution."
---Lorena De Vita, Diplomatica"
Preventing Palestine is an important book for its revisionist interpretation of MiddleEast peacemaking between 1977 and 1993."
---Aharon Klieman, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
