Table Of ContentContents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
1 Introduction: Two Worlds Collide
Dispelling Myths
Defining the Conflict
The Setting: Ottoman Palestine
2 The Jewish Story
A Fossilized Relic?
The Theme of Persecution
“Come, Let Us Go”
Herzl and the Second Aliyah
First Encounters
3 The Arab Story
The Glory of Islam
The Rise of the West
Palestine and Palestinism
First Encounters
The Debut of Arab Nationalism
4 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
5 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
6 The First Pass at Peace
The Oslo Breakthrough
The Rocky Road to Peace
What Went Wrong?
The Roof Falls In
7 The Fourth Stage of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
The End of the Arafat Era
Israel Turns to Unilateralism
A Turning Point: Ideology Prevails
8 The Downward Spiral
Palestinian Unilateralism
The Arab Spring
The Second Round in Gaza
The Kerry Initiative
Third Round in Gaza: The Gap Widens
9 The Impasse that Remains
The End of the Two-State Solution?
Territory and Settlements
Jerusalem
Security Issues
Refugees
A General Prognosis
10 The Perfect Conflict
Right against Right?
A Practical Solution
Building Foundations: Extremists and Illusions
Reflections
Chronology
Further Reading
Internet Links
References
Index
End User License Agreement
Maps
1.1 Ottoman Palestine 1888–1918
4.2 1947 UN Partition Plan
4.3 1949 armistice lines and 1967 cease-fire lines
6.1 1995 interim agreement (Oslo II)
6.2 Redeployment following 1998 Wye River
Memorandum
7.1 West Bank Separation Barrier
Figures
4.1 Possible solutions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Tables
5.1 Impact of the intifada: territorial concessions
9.1 Refugees’ first choice (for the exercise of the right of
return)
Hot Spots series
Samer Abboud, Syria
Christoph Bluth, Korea
Kidane Mengisteab, The Horn of Africa
Amalendu Misra, Afghanistan
Gareth Stansfield, Iraq, second edition
Jonathan Tonge, Northern Ireland
Thomas Turner, Congo
ISRAEL/PALESTINE
Alan Dowty
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