Exile and return
Subtitle: predicaments of Palestinians and Jews
By: edited by Ann M. Lesch and Ian S. Lustick.
Contributors: Lesch, Ann Mosely.; Lustick, Ian, 1949-.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict -- Refugees -- Congresses.; Repatriation -- Palestine -- Congresses.; Exile (Punishment) -- Israel -- Congresses.; Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Congresses.; Zionism -- Congresses.; Palestine -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews is a bold attempt to understand constructively and build upon the terrible irony of two peoples, each with a searing memory of displacement and exile, struggling for a return to a land each remembers, each claims, and from which each has sought to exclude the other." "The Israeli, Palestinian, and American contributors to this volume consider the catastrophic failure of the Oslo peace process, the years of bloody violence that ensued, and a renewed awareness of the centrality of the Palestinian refugee question and the issues of demography and justice it raises with respect to any peace settlement." "This volume stands as a major contribution to the construction of a new intellectual infrastructure for decisive thinking about the refugee question, about the entire notion of the right of return (whether in Zionism or in Palestinian nationalism), and about the unavoidable obstacles and unappreciated opportunities that confront peacemakers. It offers formulas, categories, and approaches that can be used by both Palestinian and Israeli leaders to convince their peoples that the agreement being sought will destroy neither the state that Israeli Jews have built nor the deep yearnings for vindication and return that lie at the emotional core of the Palestinian struggle."--Jacket.
Notes: Papers from two meetings at Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania, October 2002, and at both Asch Center and Villanova University, June 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-342) and index.