The former president's controversial assessment of the Israeli-Palestinian situation should not be dismissed just because his title has raised hackles in certain quarters. Indeed his is a provocative combination of memoir, meditation on history and policy, and prescription for peace in the region. He means what he says when he describes the Israeli security fence as a thinly disguised land grab. Nevertheless his commitment to the two states sharing the Holy Land rests on the assumption of both sides compromising-a land free of suicide bombers and the awful apparatus of apartheid.