Tomorrow Is Yesterday

Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine

By: Hussein Agha, Robert Malley

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Two insiders explain why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead.

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 U.S. 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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Very important book, terrible narration

This book is written by two people who know the inside story and history of these countries and is filled with valuable and stunning insights. However, I do not understand how they came to choose this narrator who is so ill equipped to deal with the subject manner in a way you are able to listen and comprehend it. She has all the wrong intonations, fake sounding, not a professional at all and it ruins the book. I could not listen to it, so now will have to read it in order to truly learn what the book has to say. Every time I try to listen, my attention strays because the narrator is so poor. She is more suited to reading a children's booko but even that is dubious.
The subject matter is fairly detailed and requires careful listening which you cannot do with the current narration. I plan to write to them and let them know the falacy of their choice or whoever chose her. There are so many good narrators, and I imagine how good this book could be with one of them.
My recommendation is don't buy.

Smug

Shocked me how holier than thou this book turned out to be. Apparently they’re smarter than everybody else in the world. Just ask them for any advice.

Eloquent and wise

A beautifully written account of the challenges posed by the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Written by two people who have been on the inside of many efforts to solve the problem. Full of sage insight.

Bad narrator. Very hard to listen too

The information is very good. the author was very well informed. But the narrator is horrible. i had a very hard time listening to the book. why would someone spend so much time researching a book of sure knowledge and invest in a sure a bad narrator. the narrator read the book like it was fairy tale book.

Very odd...almost like Mary Poppins or a Mary Poppins tale. Very sad, the information in this book should be known to public & the media. but i don't think the average audible book listeners will be able struggle though this narrator style of reading, which will be a lost to the author.