Israel/Palestine / Alan Dowty.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008 (reprint 2009)Edition: 2nd edDescription: x, 269 p. : 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780745642437 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.94 D769i
LOC classification:
  • DS119.76 .D69 2012
Contents:
Introduction : two worlds collide: Dispelling myths ; Defining the conflict ; The setting : Ottoman Palestine -- The Jewish story : a fossilized relic?: The theme of persecution ; "Come, let us go" ; Herzl and the Second Aliyah ; First encounters -- The Arab story: The glory of Islam ; The rise of the West ; Palestine and Palestinism ; First encounters ; The debut of Arab nationalism -- The emergence of Israel: The British Mandate ; A mischievous pretence? ; Holocaust and partition ; The War of Independence/An-Nakba : the second stage of the conflict ; Nasser and nationalism -- The re-emergence of the Palestinians: The war that no one wanted? ; The peculiar legacy of 1967 ; The decade of Sadat : entering the third stage of the conflict ; The Lebanese tangle ; Shaking things up : the first intifada -- The first pass at peace: The Oslo breakthrough ; The rocky road to peace ; What went wrong? ; The roof falls in -- The fourth stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The end of the Arafat era ; Israel turns to unilateralism ; A turning point : ideology prevails -- The impasse that remains: The end of the two-state solution? ; Territory and settlements ; Jerusalem ; Security issues ; Refugees ; A general prognosis -- The perfect conflict: Right against right? ; A practical solution ; Building foundations : extremists and illusions ; Reflections.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.245-256), index, chronology, Internet links.

Introduction : two worlds collide: Dispelling myths ; Defining the conflict ; The setting : Ottoman Palestine -- The Jewish story : a fossilized relic?: The theme of persecution ; "Come, let us go" ; Herzl and the Second Aliyah ; First encounters -- The Arab story: The glory of Islam ; The rise of the West ; Palestine and Palestinism ; First encounters ; The debut of Arab nationalism -- The emergence of Israel: The British Mandate ; A mischievous pretence? ; Holocaust and partition ; The War of Independence/An-Nakba : the second stage of the conflict ; Nasser and nationalism -- The re-emergence of the Palestinians: The war that no one wanted? ; The peculiar legacy of 1967 ; The decade of Sadat : entering the third stage of the conflict ; The Lebanese tangle ; Shaking things up : the first intifada -- The first pass at peace: The Oslo breakthrough ; The rocky road to peace ; What went wrong? ; The roof falls in -- The fourth stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The end of the Arafat era ; Israel turns to unilateralism ; A turning point : ideology prevails -- The impasse that remains: The end of the two-state solution? ; Territory and settlements ; Jerusalem ; Security issues ; Refugees ; A general prognosis -- The perfect conflict: Right against right? ; A practical solution ; Building foundations : extremists and illusions ; Reflections.

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