In this revelatory, hard-hitting book, O'Malley approaches the key issues pragmatically, without ideological bias, opening our minds to the vital truth that we must find new frameworks for reconciliation if there is to be lasting peace between Palestine and Israel.
Padraig O'Malley is the Moakley Chair for Peace and Reconciliation at the McCormack Graduate School of Global and Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts. He has dedicated his career to studying and helping to resolve conflicts in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and beyond. He is the author ofShades of DifferenceandBiting at the Grave, one ofthe New York Times' ten best books of 1990. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Impressive . . . [O’Malley] has done a tremendous amount of
research about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He’s not only
delved deeply into the literature; he’s also interviewed dozens of
participants on both sides. The result is a book so packed with
information that it will reward even the reader so dedicated that
she consumes the Israel-Palestine stories buried on Page A17 of The
Times. . . . O’Malley is not only knowledgeable; he’s also
honest.”
—New York Times Book Review
“The Two-State Delusion provides an impartial, empathic but
relentlessly objective look at our reality . . . [and] a refreshing
departure from the blame game in which Israelis and Palestinians
and their respective international champions try to make the other
side responsible for the peace process’s failure. And it diverges
from the tendency to find the trick that will do the job, and comes
to a conclusion as intellectually compelling as it is
dismaying.”
—Haaretz (Israel)
“On the basis of a meticulous research effort . . . O’Malley argues
very persuasively that the two-state solution is dead. . . . This
volume provides valuable and very timely explanations for the
persistence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One can only hope
that Israeli, Palestinian and American decision makers will absorb
the major lessons taught so very convincingly by O'Malley.”
—Middle East Policy
“An honest assessment of where the Israelis and Palestinians are
right now . . . After interviewing more than one hundred leaders on
both sides, [O'Malley] believes everything attempted so far is on
the wrong track. The problem, he explains, is that both sides are
looking backward instead of forward.”
—Cleveland Plain-Dealer
“A thoughtful autopsy of the failed two-state paradigm . . .
[O’Malley] carefully sifts through the intractable coexistence
between the Palestinians and Israelis and finds both sides so
traumatized by the ‘narrative’ of their respective struggle that
they are unable to view the other with respect or humanity—the
beginning of true reconciliation. . . . Evenhanded, diplomatic,
mutually respectful and enormously useful.”
—Kirkus, starred review
“Exhaustively researched . . . There are no heroes in O’Malley’s
account, and no clear villains either.”
—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj & the Struggle
for South Africa
“A striking success.”
—Jeremy Harding, The New York Times Book Review
“An original and important work . . . An entry for the reader into
a wider understanding of the elements of the Struggle, the
contradictions that had to be overcome to bring us freedom.”
—Nadine Gordimer, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“[O’Malley] is knowledgeable and sure-footed as he recounts this
story… making a complex narrative on the whole quite
clear.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Meticulous and unflinchingly honest.”
—The New York Sun
“Brilliantly written.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“A groundbreaking biography of a central figure in the fight to end
South African apartheid.”
—Publishers Weekly
“[Shades of Difference] is one of those seminal works that every
South African should read. If you have read Mandela’s Long Road to
Freedom and other annals of our struggle, it is imperative to add
this one to your collection because it provides an important and
vital thread to the understanding of South Africa, then, now and
into the future.”
—Musa Zondi, The Sowetan
“An extraordinarily well-researched work . . . O’Malley has a deep
understanding . . . and is perhaps one of the few outsiders who
could readily understand the South African struggle.”
—The Independent (South Africa)
“[Shades of Difference] is more than the story of one of the most
important players in the liberation drama – it is required reading
for those of us who want to understand where we came from, how we
got here and why some things happen as they do.”
—Africa News
“If you are interested in where this country has come from and
where it may be headed, then this book is required reading.”
—The Star (South Africa)
Praise for Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the
Politics of Despair
“Anyone who wants to understand the essence of the confrontation
will have cause to be devoutly grateful for this book.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“O’Malley’s story of two English-speaking communities who
squandered the benefits of constitutional government is
frightening, for his theme—the destructive effects of feelings of
beleaguerment, entrapment, and victimization—is echoed in every
morning’s newspaper.”
—The New Yorker
“A book equal to the pity and terror of its subject, Padraig
O’Malley simplifies nothing, extenuates nothing, and scrutinizes
everything. This is not only a heart-felt narrative, but a
sustained exercise of moral and political
intelligence.” —Seamus Heaney
“A brilliant, chilling, and heartbreaking book.” —Boston
Globe
“O’Malley shrewdly assesses the psychological, cultural, religious
and political forces that kept the hunger strikes going against all
odds, and against all reason.” —Washington Post
“A fierce and uncompromising examination of the history, mythology,
mindset and religion that make up modern Ireland, north and south
alike.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
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