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by Hussein Agha (Author), Robert Malley (Author)
A Best Book of 2025
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In Tomorrow Is Yesterday, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley offer an up-close and bracing perspective on how the hopes of the peace process became the horrors of the present. Drawing on their experience as advisors to the Palestinian leadership and US presidents, Agha and Malley present portraits of leading figures and expose the delusions and lies of Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans alike. They stress that the two-state solution became a global goal only after it was no longer viable; that US officials preferred fussing over technical schemes to a reckoning with actualities; that Hamas's October 7 onslaught and Israel's subsequent war of destruction were not one-offs but reenactments; and that the gaps separating Israelis and Palestinians have less to do with territorial allocation than with history and emotions.
Author Biography
Hussein Agha has been involved in Israeli-Palestinian affairs and negotiations for more than half a century. He was a senior associate fellow at Chatham House and, until 2023, was a senior associate member of St. Antony's College, Oxford, for over twenty-five years. He has coauthored books on Syria, Iran, Palestinian national security, and Track II diplomacy with A. S. Khalidi. He is the editor of Mideast Mirror.
Robert Malley served in senior Middle East positions in the administrations of Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden. He was president and CEO of the International Crisis Group. He is the author of The Call from Algeria and currently is Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School. Hussein Agha and Robert Malley's joint writings have appeared in several major publications.
