What Is a Palestinian State Worth?

ISBN-13: 9780674064355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 248 str.

Sari Nusseibeh

Opis

Can a devout Jew be a devout Jew and drop the belief in the rebuilding of the Temple? Can a devout Muslim be a devout Muslim and drop the belief in the sacredness of the Rock? Can one right (the right of return) be given up for another (the right to live in peace)? Can one claim Palestinian identity and still retain Israeli citizenship? What is a Palestinian state worth? For over sixty years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been subjected to many solutions and offered many answers by diverse parties. Yet, answers are only as good as the questions that beget them. It is with this simple, but powerful idea, the idea of asking the basic questions anew, that the renowned Palestinian philosopher and activist Sari Nusseibeh begins his book. What Is a Palestinian State Worth? poses questions about the history, meaning, future, and resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Deeply informed by political philosophy and based on decades of personal involvement with politics and social activism, Nusseibeh's moderate voice--global in its outlook, yet truly grounded in his native city of Jerusalem--points us toward a future which, as George Lamming once put it, is colonized by our acts in this moment, but which must always remain open.

O autorze

Sari Nusseibeh, geboren 1949, ist seit 1995 Präsident der Al-Quds-Universität, der einzigen arabischen Universität in Jerusalem, an der er auch Philosophie lehrt. Von 2001 bis 2002 war er Statthalter der PLO in Jerusalem und ist seit Jahren auf vielfältige Weise in den Friedensprozess involviert. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Jerusalem. 2003 wurde er mit dem Lew-Kopelew-Preis für Frieden und Menschenrechte ausgezeichnet. Im Jahr 2010 erhielt er den Siegfried Unseld Preis.