The Israel/Palestine Question

by Pappe, Ilan

• ISBN13: 9780415169486
• ISBN10: 0415169488
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An explicitly revisionist collection that takes the ground away from pro-Israeli historians and suggests a far more nuanced view of the issue,The Israel/Palestine Questionassimilates diverse interpretations of the origins of the Middle East conflict with emphasis on the fight for Palestine and its religious and political roots. Drawing largely on scholarly debates in Israel during the last two decades, which have become known as 'historical revisionism,' the collection presents the most recent developments in the historiography of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a critical reassessment of Israel's past. The volume commences with an overview of Palestinian history and the origins of modern Palestine, and includes essays on the early Zionist movement, the 1948 war, international influences on the conflict and the Intifada.

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction: new historiographical orientations in the research on the Palestine Question	p. 1
The history of Palestine rediscovered	p. 9
Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: writing Palestinians into history	p. 11
The rise of the sanjak of Jerusalem in the late nineteenth century	p. 41
The origins of Zionism in Palestine reconsidered	p. 53
The colonization perspective in Israeli sociology	p. 55
Zionism and colonialism: a comparative approach	p. 81
The social history of the conflict	p. 97
Railway workers and relational history: Arabs and Jews in British-ruled Palestine	p. 99
The role of the Palestinian peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-9)	p. 129
The new history of the 1948 war	p. 169
The debate about 1948	p. 171
The causes and character of the Arab exodus from Palestine: the Israeli defense forces intelligence service analysis of June 1948	p. 193
A critique on Benny Morris	p. 211
Palestinians in Israel	p. 221
The democratization of a traditional minority in an ethnic democracy: the Palestinians in Israel	p. 223
The Intifada in historical perspective	p. 247
From salons to the popular committees: Palestinian women, 1919-89	p. 249
Index	p. 269
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