The Israel-Palestine Conflict Contested Histories

by Caplan, Neil

• ISBN13: 9781405175395
• ISBN10: 1405175397
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-31
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Provides a fresh attempt to break away from polemical approaches that have undermined academic discussion and political debates Focuses on a series of core arguments that the author considers essentially unwinnable Introduces readers to the major historiographical debates sparked by the dispute Encourages readers to consider more useful ways of explaining and understanding the conflict, and to go beyond trying to prove who is 'right' and 'wrong'

Author Biography

Neil Caplan holds a PhD in Politics from London School of Economics & Political Science (University of London) and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University and Scholar in Residence at Vanier College, Montreal, Canada. He recently retired after 35 years of teaching in the Humanities Department of Vanier College. He has published numerous articles and seven books, including Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925 (1978), Futile Diplomacy, a four-volume study of Arab-Zionist and Arab-Israeli negotiations from 1913 to 1956, and (with Laurie Z. Eisenberg), Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities (1998; revised edition 2010).

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Preface

Chronology

Introduction

Problems in Defining the Conflict

Defining the Conflict, Nevertheless

Histories in Contention

Background to 1917: Origins of Conflict

Arabs and Jews under the British Mandate: Entrenching Positions, 1917-1928

Collapse of the Mandate: Rebellion, Partition, White Paper, 1929-1939

Shoah, Atzmaut, Nakba: 1939-1949

Israel and the Arab States, 1949-1973

Back to the Core: Israel and the Palestinians

From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon

From Boycott to Mutual Recognition, 1982-2008

Towards a More Useful Discussion of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Writing about the Conflict

Confronting the Obstacles

Bibliography

Index

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