Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict /
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Language: | English |
Edition: | Seventh edition. |
Imprint: | Boston : Bedford/st Martin's, 2010. |
Series: | Ann & Jean Burnstine Book Fund for Jewish Studies (Wellesley College)
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Local Note: | Gift of the Ann & Jean Burnstine Book Fund for Jewish Studies. |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of Photos and Maps
- Prologue. The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Historical Perspective: The Middle East and Palestine to 1517
- Ancient Israel and Palestine to the Coming of Islam
- Political Fragmentation And Rebellion To The Roman Period
- Palestine Under Roman And Byzantine Rule
- The Arabs and the Spread of Islam
- Islam and Its Relationship To Judaism and Christianity
- Palestine under Muslim Rule to 1517
- Chronology
- [Notes]
- 1. Ottoman Society, Palestine, and the Origins of Zionism, 1516-1914
- Commercial Relations and Military Decline, 1500-1800
- Regional Strife, Imperial Interventions, and Ottoman Retraction, 1800-1914
- Ottoman Society in an Age of Reform
- European Inroads and Communial Tensions to Mid-Century
- Palestine in the Nineteenth Century
- Changing Patterns: Trade, Land, Agriculture, and Population
- [Palestinian Notables and Absentee Landowners]
- [Palestinian Agricultural Productivity]
- [Tourists and Immigrants]
- [Population and Identity]
- Zionism: Its Origins and Development to 1914
- The Jews of Western Europe
- Eastern European Jewry and the Rise of Zionism
- [The Origins of Zionism]
- [Bilu and Hibbat Zion]
- Theodore Herzl and the Zionist Movement to 1914
- [Herzl and the World Zionist Organization]
- [Militant Zionism: The Second Aliya]
- The Arab Response to Zionism
- Ottoman Policies and Jewish Land Purchases
- Growing Apprehension: Palestine and the Arab World
- Conclusion
- Questions for Consideration
- Chronology
- [Notes]
- Document 1.1. Working-Class Conditions, 1838 and 1873-Greater Syria
- Document 1.2. The Islahat Fermani [Hatti Humayoun] of February 1856
- Document 1.3. Theodor Herzl, Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), 1896
- Document 1.4. Theodor Herzl, "Who Fears a State?" from Die Welt, February 18, 1898
- Document 1.5. The Basel Program, 1897
- 2. World War I, Great Britain, and the Peace Settlements, 1914-1921
- World War I: The Ottoman Empire and the European Powers
- British Imperial Objectives
- [Gallipoli and Imperial Bargaining]
- [The De Bunsen Committee]
- Britain, The Arabs, and the Husayn-Mcmahon Correspondence, 1915-1916
- The Lure of an Arab Revolt
- The Husayn-McMahon Correspondence: Defining the Terms
- McMahon's Deception: The Roots of Arab Bitterness
- Anglo-French Interests and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
- Spheres of Control and Influence
- British Evaluation of Their Commitments
- Britain, Palestine, and the Balfour Declaration
- Chaim Weizmann and British Politics
- British War Aims and Palestine
- Negotiating the Text
- Goals Versus Promises: The European Powers, Zionism, and the Arabs, 1917-1918
- Reassuring Sharif Husayn
- Syria and "Self-Determination"
- Zionist-Arab Fears: The Faysal-Weizmann Agreement
- The Peace Settlements and the Mandate System
- Faysal and the British-French Struggle for Syria
- Wilson, the League of Nations, and the Mandate System
- Postwar Crises and the Creation of Transjordan
- Conclusion
- Questions for Consideration
- Chronology
- [Notes]
- Document 2.1. The Husayn-McMahon Correspondence, July 1915-January 1916
- Document 2.2. Drafts and Final Text of the Balfour Declaration
- Document 2.3. The Faysal-Weizmann Agreement, January 3, 1919
- Document 2.4. Resolutions of the General Syrian Congress, July 2, 1919
- Document 2.5. Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, January 1920
- Document 2.6. The Mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922
- 3. Palestine Between the Wars: Zionism, the Palestinian Arabs, and the British Mandate, 1920-1939
- The First Phase: Hopes Fulfilled and Dashed, 1918-1920
- Political Leadership in the Palestinian-Arab and Zionist Communities
- Palestinian Arabs and British Policies
- [The Legislative Council Plans]
- [Palestinian Arab Rivalries]
- Zionist Leadership in Palestine and Abroad
- [Weizmann and the Jewish Agency]
- [Palestinian Jews and Labor Zionism]
- [Ben-Gurion Triumphs: Mapai and the Histadrut]
- [Revisionist Zionism Challenges Labor]
- [Agudat Israel]
- Jews and Arabs Under the Mandate: The Clash of Conflicting Aspirations
- The Land Question
- [Patterns of Land Ownership]
- [Zionist Land Purchases]
- [The Landless Arab Problem]
- The Conflict over the Western Wall, 1928-1929
- Investigations and Retractions: The Passfield White Paper
- European Crises and their Repercussions: Yishuv Expansion and Arab Rebellion
- The Arab Revolt: Its Roots and Impact on Palestine
- [Zionism and the Arab Economy]
- [Arab Factions Emerge]
- [Al-Qassam and the Outbreak of Violence]
- [The Peel Commission and Partition]
- [The Second Stage of the Revolt]
- [The Legacy of the Revolt]
- Britain Rethinks its Obligations: The 1939 White Paper
- Palestine in British Strategy
- Partition Foiled: The Woodhead Commission
- The St. James Conference
- The 1939 White Paper
- Great Britain and Palestine on the Eve of World War II
- Conclusion
- Questions for Consideration
- Chronology
- [Notes]
- Document 3.1. The Churchill White Paper, July 1, 1922
- Document 3.2. Palestine Royal (Peel) Commission Report, July 1937
- Document 3.3. The 1939 White Paper
- 4. World War II and the Creation of the State of Israel, 1939-1949
- Palestine, Zionism, and the War Effort, 1939-1945
- World War II and the Middle East
- Palestine: Jewish Immigration and the British Response
- The Jewish Division and the Question of Jewish Military Capabilities
- The Biltmore Conference and Its Consequences
- The White Paper, Partition, and Britain's Place in the Middle East, 1942-1945
- Jewish Terrorism, the Hagana, and the British, 1940-1945
- Palestinian Arab Leadership and the Question of Arab Unity, 1939-1945
- [Arab Society]
- [Arab Nationalism and Regional Rivalries]
- The End of the Mandate and the Creation of Israel, 1945-1949
- The Middle East and Postwar Tensions: Origins of the Cold War
- Anglo-American Perspectives on Palestine
- Great Britain, the United States, and Zionism, July 1945-February 1947
- [British Aims and Zionist Resistance]
- [The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry]
- [The Morrison-Grady Committee]
- [Zionist Terrorism, British Crackdown, and American Politics]
- [Britain Abdicates: The London Conference, February 1947]
- UNSCOP and United Nations' Ratification of Partition, February-November 1947
- [The UNSCOP Committee Hearings and Recommendations]
- [Palestine Partitioned: The U.N. Debate]
- The Battle for Palestine/Israel, December 1947-May 1948
- [Arab-Zionist Strife Erupts]
- [American Policy in Disarray]
- [Dayr Yasin and the Palestinian Refugees]
- [Ben-Gurion Proclaims the State of Israel]
- The Arab Israeli Wars and the Armistices, 1948-1949
- Conclusion
- Questions for Consideration
- Chronology
- [Notes]
- Document 4.1. The "Final Solution": Nazi Extermination of European Jewry
- Document 4.2. UNSCOP's Plan of Partition with Economic Union
- Document 4.3. Jamal al-Husayni, Testimony on Palestinian Arab Reaction to the UNSCOP Proposals, September 29, 1947
- Document 4.4. Rabbi Hillel Silver, Testimony on Zionist Reaction to the UNSCOP Proposals, October 2, 1947
- Document 4.5. Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948
- Document 4.6. King Abdullah's Offer to the Zionists, May 1948
- 5. The Beginning of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Search for Security, 1949-1957
- Israel, The Arab States, and The Palestinian/Israeli Arabs: 1949-1954
- Israel: Government, Citizenship, and the Law
- Israeli Arabs: Dispossession and Isolation
- The Palestinian Refugees
- The Western Allies, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Israeli Views of Arabs and the World
- [Ben-Gurionist Activism]
- [Moshe Sharett and the Activists]
- The Arab States: Domestic Turmoil and Regional Rivalries
- [Arab Rivalries and the Struggle for Syria]
- [Nasser and the 1952 Egyptian Revolution]
- The Cold War and the Middle East: Looking for Allies, 1953-1955
- Containment and the Northern Tier Concept
- The Baghdad Pact
- Israel, the Lavon Affair, and the Gaza Raid
- The Gaza Raid and the Czech Arms Deal
- Israel and France Draw Closer
- Border Clashes and Blockade of the Straits of Tiran
- Countdown to Suez: Failed Diplomacy and Dreams of Empire, January-November 1956
- Carrots and Sticks: Projects and Peace Proposals
- [Project Alpha and the Anderson Mission]
- [Aswan Dam Project in Trouble]
- Nasser Nationalizes the Canal
- Invasion Plans Take Shape
- The Attacks and Their Aftermath
- Conclusion
- Questions for Consideration
- Chronology
- [Notes]
- Document 5.1. Letter on the Position of the Palestinian Refugees, November 17, 1949
- Document 5.2. Gamal Abd al-Nasser, Speech Justifying Nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, July 28, 1956
- Document 5.3. Golda Meir, Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, March 1, 1957
- 6. From Suez to the Six-Day War, 1957-1967
- The Struggle for Syria and the Creation of the United Arab Republic, 1957-1958
- The United States, Syria, and the Cold War
- The United Arab Republic: Conflict and Significance
- Lebanon: Political Strife, Civil War, and Regional Crisis, 1957-1958
- Maronite Catholics and Lebanese Political Alignments
- Lebanon's Civil War and the Iraqi Revolution
- The Arab World in American Perspective: The Cold War Context
- Inter-Arab and Arab-Israeli Tensions, 1958-1964
- Nasser Strives to Dominate Arab Politics
- Water Wars: Israeli-Syrian Clashes and the Arab Response
- The Palestine Question in Arab Politics: The Palestine Liberation Organization and al-Fatah
- [PLO Initiatives and Arab Government Reactions]
- [Fatah: Background and Policies]
- [The Syrian-Fatah Alliance]
- [Jordan Between Arab Radicalism and Israeli Retaliation]
- Israeli Politics to 1967
- Great Power Rivalries in the Middle East to 1967
- The United States between Israel and the Arabs
- Lyndon Johnson and Israel
- The Soviet Union and the Arab World
- The Crisis Escalates: Military Clashes, Misleading Assurances, and Failed Diplomacy
- Syrian-Israeli Tensions and Threats
- The Egyptian Blockade of the Tiran Straits
- Israeli Debates: Eshkol and the Generals
- Israel Attacks: U.S. Assurances and the Pending Egyptian Peace Initiative
- The Six-Day War: Israel's Conquests and American Expectations
- Conclusion
- Questions for Consideration
- Chronology
- [Notes]
- Document 6.1. Communiquã© No. 1 from Headquarters of Asifa Forces (Fatah), January 6, 1965