The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Contested Histories
Contesting the Past
1. Auflage August 2009
336 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories offers non-specialist readers insights into the causes and consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this detailed historical overview, Caplan highlights the tangible issues over which the parties are fighting, but also frequently examines some of the more intangible underlying factors that continue to hamper a peaceful resolution. Giving voice to the competing narratives of both groups, this book breaks away from polemical approaches to suggest more useful ways of explaining the obstacles to reconciliation and conflict resolution.
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
* Provides a fresh attempt to break away from polemical approaches that have undermined academic discussion and political debates
* Focuses on a series of core arguments that the author considers essentially unwinnable
* Introduces readers to the major historiographical debates sparked by the dispute
* Encourages readers to consider more useful ways of explaining and understanding the conflict, and to go beyond trying to prove who is 'right' and 'wrong'
"This volume suggests a fresh and original interpretation to the history of the Arab Israeli conflict. Caplan juggles skillfully and even-handedly between the two narratives, reflecting the parties' own views without embracing the cause of any party."
-Joseph Nevo, University of Haifa
"An impressive and very valuable work. One could not ask for a better short history of the conflict. Caplan offers readers a study that is extremely well-informed, resolutely fair-minded, and filled with thoughtful insights."
-Mark Tessler, University of Michigan
1. Problems in Defining the Conflict.
2. Defining the Conflict, Nevertheless.
Part II Histories in Contention.
3. Background to 1917: Origins of Conflict.
4. Arabs and Jews under the British Mandate: Entrenching Positions, 1917-1928.
5. Collapse of the Mandate: Rebellion, Partition, White Paper, 1929-1939.
6. Shoah, Atzma'ut, Nakba: 1939-1949.
7. Israel and the Arab States, 1949-1973.
8. Back to the Core: Israel and the Palestinians.
9. From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon.
10. From Boycott to Mutual Recognition, 1982-2008.
Part III Towards a More Useful Discussion of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
11. Writing about the Conflict.
12. Confronting the Obstacles.
Bibliography.
