Unlike other intractable conflicts, there has been an overwhelming international consensus on the Israel-Palestine conflict since the mid-1970s, affirming ‘the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war’. None of the books reviewed above sufficiently elucidate the cause of truth and justice and the crucial significance of international law upon which a meaningful two-state settlement can be built. Provided that readers question the dominant representations, which suggest that international law offers ‘little’ legal remedy for injustice, that ‘the Arab–Israeli conflict’ is ‘interracial’ or that the US inevitably has to continue to ‘broker’ ‘peace’, these three volumes will be valuable to IR students who wish to understand how the Arab–Israeli conflict literature has contributed to the construction of the only knowable ‘reality’.
