The Path to Geneva: The Quest for a Permanent Agreement, 1996-2004

By Yossi Beilin

Book Overview

From the early days of the secret Oslo talks through the recent crises and new developments in Israel and Palestine, Yossi Beilin has been at the center of it all. This book highlights his intensive and historic meetings with President Clinton, Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres, Hosni Mubarak, King Hussein of Jordan, and Madeleine Albright, as well as Beilin's crucial connections with such seminal Arab leaders as Yasser Arafat, Saeb Erekat, Faisal Husseini, and the first Prime Minister of "Palestine," Abu Mazen. The Beilin-Mazen agreements are the basis of the current "road map" to Middle East peace.

The reader is carried with Beilin to Bill Clinton's Oval Office, Mubarak's Cairo, Hussein's Amman, and many other centers of global power--becoming privy to historic encounters and the surprising details of those negotiations, both public and secret. In The Path to Geneva, we learn how Beilin came to be this world leader in search of peace, how he overcame all the inherent difficulties, how he interfaced with world leaders, and how he sees a solution to this ancient problem that creates a fair resolution for all sides.

This book is an extremely important and inspiring document, giving hope via pragmatism and the personal will of a dedicated, brilliant diplomat and visionary participant in this most challenging of arenas.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097192063X
• ISBN13: 9780971920637
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Rdv Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Posiblity for Peace Still Exists

This book provides a great insight into the quest for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. The author is an Israeli government insider having been a member of the Knesset and the cabinet. He was involved in the negotiations for peace. He gives an inspiring view of the moderate Israeli fight to create a permanent solution to the 50 years of war. This book takes a real view to the end of negotiations and the reality of the second intifada. The author holds out for negotiations to begin again and knows that when they do there is no reason to start the peace process again, but should start with the agreements reached in Taba in 2001. Or the posibility exists that negotiations could be based on the authors own personal negotiations that continued beyond Taba, the Geneva Agreement. After reading this book, I was happy to see that there are both Israelis and Palestinians who have continued to work on hammering out the differences that were left after the end of official negotiations. It gave me a sense that the possiblity for peace can still be a reality.