Synopses & Reviews
Drawing on debates from the last two decades, and including a new sections on women's history in the region and new articles on minorities and land ownership, this book presents the most recent developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict and a reassessment of Israel's past.
Synopsis
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 Question assimilates 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.
Table of Contents
Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: writing Palestinians into history / Beshara B. Doumani -- The rise of the sanjak of Jerusalem in the late nineteenth century / Butrus Abu-Manneh -- The colonization perspective in Israeli sociology / Uri Ram -- Zionism and colonialism: a comparative approach / Gershon Shafir -- Railway workers and relational history: Arabs and Jews in British-ruled Palestine / Zachary Lockman -- The role of the Palestinian peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-9) / Ted Swedenburg -- The debate about 1948 / Avi Shlaim -- The causes and character of the Arab exodus from Palestine: the Israeli defense forces intelligence service analysis of June 1948 / Benny Morris -- A critique on Benny Morris / Nur Masalha -- The democratization of a traditional minority in an ethnic democracy: the Palestinians in Israel / Nadim Rouhana and As®ad Ghanem -- From salons to the popular committees: Palestinian women, 1919-89 / Islad Jad.