Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, by Sara Roy. London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2007. xxiii + 332 pages. Notes to p. 368. Index to p. 379. $29.95 paper. JSTOR

Bruce B. Lawrence, professor of Islamic studies at Duke University, is the author most recently of The Qur’an—A Biography (2007) and, with Aisha Karim, editor of On Violence—An Anthology (2008).