Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine - Softcover

Agha, Hussein; Malley, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250448778 ISBN 13: 9781250448774

Publisher: Picador, 2026

Synopsis

On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters killed more than eleven hundred Israelis and took more than two hundred hostages, prompting an Israeli response that has in turn taken tens of thousands of lives and devastated the Gaza Strip. Why did this happen, and can anything be done to grant peace and justice to Israelis and Palestinians alike? In Tomorrow Is Yesterday, the analyst Hussein Agha and the diplomat Robert Malley offer a personal and bracing perspective on how the hopes of the Oslo Peace Process became the horrors of the present. Drawing on their experience advising the Palestinian leadership (Arafat and Abbas) and US presidents (Clinton, Obama, and Biden) and their participation in secret talks over decades, Agha and Malley offer candid portraits of leading figures and an interpretation of the conflict that exposes the delusions of all sides. They stress that the two-state solution became a global goal only when it was no longer viable; that US officials preferred technical schemes to a frank reckoning with the past; that Hamas’s onslaught and Israel’s war of destruction were not historical exceptions but historical reenactments; and that the gaps separating Israelis and Palestinians have less to do with territorial allocation than with history and emotions.

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About the Author

Hussein Agha has played a central role in Palestinian politics and peace efforts for more than three decades. A senior associate member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, he participated in Palestinian back-channel negotiations and contributed to the Obama administration’s efforts to broker an Israeli–Palestinian peace agreement. He is the coauthor of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine. Robert Malley has served in senior positions across multiple US administrations. Under President Obama, he was special assistant to the president, senior advisor for the counter-ISIL campaign, and White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf. He previously served as special assistant for Arab–Israeli affairs under President Clinton and was most recently US special envoy for Iran under President Biden. He is the author of The Call from Algeria.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250448778
• ISBN 13: 9781250448774
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272