The Israel/Palestine question
By: edited by Ilan Pappe.
Contributors: Pappé, Ilan.
Series: Rewriting histories
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Jewish-Arab relations -- History -- 1917-1948.; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Historiography.; Palestinian Arabs -- Israel.
Description: This study assimilates diverse interpretations of the origins of the Middle East conflict with emphasis on the fight for Palestine and its religious and political roots. It draws largely on the historical revisionism of the last two decades.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: writing Palestinians into history / Beshara B. Doumani --; title: The rise of the sanjak of Jerusalem in the late nineteenth century / Butrus Abu-Manneh --; title: The colonization perspective in Israeli sociology / Uri Ram --; title: Zionism and colonialism: a comparative approach / Gersoh Shafir --; title: Railway workers and relational history: Arabs and Jews in British-ruled Palestine / Zachary Lockman --; title: The role of the Palestinian peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-9) / Ted Swedenburg --; title: The debate about 1948 / Abid Shalaim --; title: The causes and character of the Arab exodus from Palestine: the Israeli defense forces intelligence service analysis of June 1948 / Benny Morris --; title: A critique on Benny Morris / Nur Masalha --; title: The democratization of a traditional minority in an ethnic democracy: the Palestinians in Israel / Nadim Rouhana and Asʼad Ghanem --; title: From salons to the popular committees: Palestinian women, 1919-89 / Islad Jad