The persistence of the Palestinian question
Subtitle: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians
By: Joseph Massad.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Israel; Arab-Israeli conflict; Zionism; Arab nationalism; Postcolonialism
Description: "Dr Massad here proposes more than the usual review of the ideological and political histories of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. It is not in de-linking the Palestinian Question from the Jewish Question that a resolution can be found but by linking them as one and the same question. All other proposed solutions, the author argues, are bound to fail." "The book analyzes the failure of the "peace process" and proposes that a solution to the Palestinian Question will not be found unless settler-colonialism, racism, and anti-Semitism are abandoned as the ideological framework for a resolution. Individual essays further explore the struggle over Jewish identity in Israel and the struggle among Palestinians over what constitutes the Palestinian Question today."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: the opposite of terror; title: The "Post-colonial" colony: time, space, and bodies in Palestine/Israel; title: Conceiving the masculine: gender and Palestinian nationalism; title: Zionism's internal others: Israel and the Mizrahim; title: Palestinians and the limits of racialized discourse; title: Repentant terrorists or settler-colonialism revisited: the PLO-Israeli agreement in perspective; title: Political realists or comprador intelligentsia: Palestinian intellectuals and the national struggle; title: Return or permanent exile? Palestinian refugees and the ends of Oslo; title: Palestinians and Jewish history: recognition or submission?; title: The ends of Zionism: racism and the Palestinian struggle; title: History on the line: Joseph Massad and Benny Morris discuss the Middle East; title: The persistence of the Palestinian question.