Jerome M. Segal Livres

The collection features thematic essays from Jerome Segal's previous works, showcasing his insights into philosophy and moral psychology. By combining writings from titles such as Agency and Alienation and Creating the Palestinian State, it offers a cohesive exploration of concepts like agency, illusion, and well-being. This definitive edition highlights Segal's intellectual contributions, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of his ideas and arguments.

The Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about the two-state solution, even in the absence of a fully committed Israeli partner. In part 1, Jerome Segal provides an analytical and historical study of the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, a remarkable act of unilateral peacemaking through which the PLO accepted the legitimacy of the 1947 Partition Resolution and thereby redefined Palestinian nationalism. In part 2, he proposes a new strategy in which, outside of negotiations, the Palestinians would advance, in full detail, the end-of-claims/end-of-conflict peace plan they are prepared to sign, one that powerfully addresses the Palestinian refugee question and is supported by the refugees themselves yet does not undermine Israel as a Jewish-majority state.

The fact that the Jewish and the Palestinian people both, because of history and identity, have one and the same territory as their common homeland, does not dictate any particular answer to how the two states should relate to one another. … If we think of the peace negotiations as historic then we must recognize that in the relations between the two states there will be ups and downs. And even if at the outset it is decided to operate along the lines of strict-separation, the common homeland orientation expresses an intention to achieve a future in which the two peoples could trulyshare their common homeland.