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In this thoroughly updated edition, Marwan Bishara, a leading Palestinian commentator, re-analyzes the Palestinian/Israeli situation nine years on from the Oslo Accords of 1993. He lays out the causes of the Second Intifada and argues that peace without justice is impossible. Bishara shows how the patrons of the Oslo "peace process", in particular the US, ignored the asymmetry of power between the Palestinians and Israelis. The ill-conceived transition process, as a result, degenerated into the fragmented and dependent apartheid statelet that exists today in the West Bank and Gaza.