The Israel/Palestine Question

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Ilan Pappé
Psychology Press, 1999 - History - 278 pages
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.
 

Contents

writing Palestinians
11
The rise of the sanjak of Jerusalem in the late
41
PART II
53
a comparative approach
81
Arabs
99
The role of the Palestinian peasantry in the Great
129
The debate about 1948
171
The causes and character of the Arab exodus from
193
A critique on Benny Morris
211
Palestinian
249
Index
269
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