The Forgotten Palestinians; A History of the Palestinians in Israel

by Ilan Pappé

• ISBN13: 9780300134414
• ISBN10: 030013441X
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2011-06-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however, in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem, their experiences are often overlooked and forgotten. In this book, historian Ilan Pappe examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities and Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival and interview material, Pappe analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens, finding discrimination in matters of housing, education, and civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable,The Forgotten Palestiniansbrings a new and much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate.

Author Biography

The best selling author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappé is currently Professor of History at Exeter University, UK, and previously taught at Haifa University, Israel. He lives in the UK.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Hostile Aliens in Their Own Homeland	p. 1
Introduction	p. 9
Out of the Ashes of the Nakbah	p. 15
The Open Wound: Military Rule and Its Lasting Impact	p. 46
Military Rule by Other Means, 1967-1977	p. 94
Between the Day of the Land and the First Intifada, 1976-1987	p. 135
After the First Intifada: Between Palestinian Assertiveness and Jewish Uncertainty, 1987-1995	p. 170
The Hopeful Years and Their Demise, 1995-2000	p. 201
The 2000 Earthquake and Its Impact	p. 229
Epilogue: The Oppressive State	p. 264
Appendix: Note on the Scholarship	p. 276
Notes	p. 292
Bibliography	p. 309
Index	p. 317
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