Screen LibraryIsrael and Palestine：reappraisals, revisions, refutations
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| Publisher Address: | London Brooklyn, NY |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxi, 392 p.: maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781844673667 1844673669 |
| Index Number: | D815 |
| CLC: | D815.4 |
| Call Number: | D815.4/S558-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-380) and index. 1948 and after -- The Balfour Declaration and its consequences -- The civil war in Palestine -- The rise and fall of the all-Palestine government in Gaza -- Did they leave or were they pushed? -- Husni Zaim and the plan to resettle Palestinian refugees in Syria -- All the difference -- Israel's dirty war -- The struggle for Jordan -- Abu Nidal, Abu Shmidal -- Sleepless afternoons -- To Oslo and beyond -- The face that launched a thousand MiGs -- Arab nationalism and its discontents -- Israel and the Gulf -- Changing the places : the Madrid Peace Conference -- Prelude to the Oslo Accord : Lik Shlaim (Lion of Jordan), an Israeli army veteran and international relations professor at Oxford University, offers a penetrating critique of Zionism in these reviews and essays collected from the last 30 years. He focuses on the "three main watersheds" - Israel's establishment, the Six Day War of 1967 and the Oslo Accords of 1993 and offers valuable commentary on current scholarship - saving his sharpest criticism for Benny Morris, a former colleague in Israel's school of "new historians," a group who made their name by refuting early historical accounts of Israel's creation and the displac |