Palestine, 1948
Subtitle: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781902210674
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Warfare & Defence; c 1945 to c 1960; Palestinian Arabs; History: World; History; History - General History; Israel; Palestine; Refugees, Palestinian Arab; Middle East - General; Far East; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Description: "Based on new and newly interpreted Israeli, British and Arab documents, this book attempts to integrate present controversies concerning the development of the Jewish-Palestinian war from December 1947 to mid-May 1948 and the consecutive Israeli-Arab war. It follows the organization of both sides at the beginning of the war and the shaping of their respective war policies. Further, it describes the creation of the invading coalition and its disintegration in the wake of the Arab armies' military failure. The book stresses the processes that led Palestinian society to its collapse and mass flight, and the Israeli reactions and policies that turned this temporary escape into a long-lasting refugee problem. Emphasizing the different historical and cultural perspectives of the adversaries and the context of the war's development, it criticizes the approach of the Israeli "New Historians" who tend to isolate the refugee problem from the broader issues of the war and treat it separately."--Jacket.