Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict /

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Author / Creator: Smith, Charles D., 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:7th ed.
Imprint: Boston : Bedford/st Martin's, 2010.
Series:Ann & Jean Burnstine Book Fund for Jewish Studies (Wellesley College)
Subjects:
Arab-Israeli conflict > Sources.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Palestine > History > 20th century > Sources.
Palestine > History > 20th century.
Palestine > History > 21st century > Sources.
Palestine > History > 21st century.
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
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