Israel / Palestine
ISBN: 9780745656120 | 0745656129
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 6/19/2012
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What explains the peculiar intensity and evident intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Of all the "hot spots" in the world today, the apparently endless clash between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East seems unique in its longevity and resistance to resolution. Is this conflict really different from other ethnic and nationalist confrontations, and if so, in what way? In this fully revised and updated third edition of his highly respected introductory text, Alan Dowty demystifies the conflict by putting it in broad historical perspe... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| List of Maps, Figures, and Tables | p. xi |
| Introduction: Two Worlds Collide | p. 1 |
| Dispelling Myths | p. 1 |
| Defining the Conflict | p. 4 |
| The Setting: Ottoman Palestine | p. 12 |
| The Jewish Story | p. 22 |
| A Fossilized Relic? | p. 22 |
| The Theme of Persecution | p. 28 |
| "Come, Let Us Go" | p. 32 |
| Her... MORE | p. 37 |
| First Encounters | p. 42 |
| The Arab Story | p. 47 |
| The Glory of Islam | p. 47 |
| The Rise of the West | p. 55 |
| Palestine and Palestinism | p. 60 |
| First Encounters | p. 64 |
| The Debut of Arab Nationalism | p. 67 |
| The Emergence of Israel | p. 72 |
| The British Mandate | p. 72 |
| A Mischievous Pretence? | p. 81 |
| Holocaust and Partition | p. 85 |
| The War of Independence/An-Nakba: The Second Stage of the Conflict | p. 92 |
| Nasser and Nationalism | p. 103 |
| The Re-Emergence of the Palestinians | p. 113 |
| The War that No One Wanted? | p. 113 |
| The Peculiar Legacy of 1967 | p. 119 |
| The Decade of Sadat: Entering the Third Stage of the Conflict | p. 125 |
| The Lebanese Tangle | p. 137 |
| Shaking Things Up: The First Intifada | p. 142 |
| The First Pass at Peace | p. 149 |
| The Oslo Breakthrough | p. 149 |
| The Rocky Road to Peace | p. 149 |
| What Went Wrong? | p. 163 |
| The Roof Falls In | p. 172 |
| The Fourth Stage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | p. 177 |
| The End of the Arafat Era | p. 177 |
| Israel Turns to Unilateralism | p. 182 |
| A Turning Point: Ideology Prevails | p. 192 |
| Palestinian Unilateralism | p. 206 |
| The Impasse that Remains | p. 220 |
| The End of the Two-State Solution? | p. 220 |
| Territory and Settlements | p. 226 |
| Jerusalem | p. 233 |
| Security Issues | p. 237 |
| Refugees | p. 242 |
| A General Prognosis | p. 248 |
| The Perfect Conflict | p. 256 |
| Right against Right? | p. 256 |
| A Practical Solution | p. 259 |
| Building Foundations: Extremists and Illusions | p. 262 |
| Reflections | p. 265 |
| Chronology | p. 267 |
| Further Reading | p. 280 |
| Internet Links | p. 283 |
| References | p. 285 |
| Index | p. 299 |
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Alan Dowty is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame
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