Book review: Conflicted are the peacemakers: Israeli and Palestinian moderates and the death of Oslo

"Conflicted Are The Peacemakers: Israeli and Palestinian Moderates and the Death of Oslo." Eric N Budd. Bloomsbury. December 2012. --- The 1993 Oslo Accords were a key attempt to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a failure largely attributed to extremists on both sides. This book challenges this conventional wisdom by examining the role of Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers themselves in derailing the peace process. Looking at the role of moderates before and after Oslo, the different agreements and peace proposals they negotiated, and their rhetoric, the book aims to show that these peacemakers retained an inherent ambivalence toward the peace process and one another. Reviewed by Jeff Roquen.