Touching peace : from the Oslo accord to a final agreement / Yossi Beilin ; translated from the Hebrew by Philip Simpson.

Includes index.

Part 1. Nobody to talk to, nothing to discuss -- part 2. Oslo -- part 3. Stockholm -- part 4. In time of peace. Nationalism ; Foreign policy ; Israel as part of the Jewish world ; Electoral reform ; Israeli society ; Dispersion of population ; Arabs of Israel ; State and religion.

"In Touching Peace Yossi Beilin, the initiator of the Oslo peace process, provides a riveting inside account of the secret talks that broke all the official rules and led, sixteen months later, to the famous handshake in September 1993 between Rabin and Arafat on the White House lawn. He describes the subsequent Stockholm dialogue, which came to a promising conclusion just five days before Rabin's assassination, and reveals details of the unofficial - and yet to be implemented - understanding reached with PLO Deputy Abu Mazen on the content of a final peace between Israelis and Palestinians." "The concluding part of this book addresses the all-important, and for Israelis unfamiliar, question of how to live in peace: Israeli nationalism and foreign policy, Israel as part of the Jewish world, electoral reform, religion and the state, the Arabs of Israel, and other topics."--Jacket.