The Palestine-Israel Conflict

Todd M. Ferry, Gregory Harms

Description

The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict in living memory. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to falsely assume the hostilities stretch continuously back to an ancient period.



The Palestine-Israel Conflict provides a balanced, accessible, and annotated introduction that covers the full history of the region, from Biblical times until today. Perfect for the general reader, as well as students, it offers a comprehensive yet lucid rendering of the conflict, setting it in its proper historical context. This fourth edition brings us up to date, and includes recent events such as Israel's Operation Protective Edge, developments between Fatah and Hamas, ongoing Palestinian resistance, and the entirety of the Obama years.



This book cuts though the layers of confused and contradictory information on the subject, and will help clarify the ongoing conflict for its readers.
List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Introduction

Part I: Regional History

1. Canaan-Palestine: Ancient History - Todd M. Ferry

2. Muhammad, Islam and the Arab Empire

3. The Crusades to the Ottoman Empire

Part II: Origins

4. Jewish Persecution and Zionism

5. Palestine

6. The Genesis of Conflict: Across Two World Wars

Part III: Conflict

7. Partition, Israeli Statehood and the Six-Day War: 1947-1967

8. The Continuation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1967-Lebanon 1982

9. The First Intifada and the Peace Process

10. The Second Intifada, Gaza and the Obama Years: 2000-2016

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes

Suggested Reading

Select Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• Political Freedom
• Middle Est
• Modern
• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Histoire
• Nakba
• Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel
• Benjamín Netanyahu
• Hamás
• Knéset
• 1948 Palestinian exodus
• Annexation
• 21st century
• Balfour Declaration
• Israel
• Jordan Valley
• South Africa under apartheid
• Modern history
• History of the Middle East
• East Jerusalem
• Geopolitics
• General officer
• Displacement
• Benjamin Netanyahu
• Zionism
• West Bank
• Peace
• Palestine Liberation Organization
• Middle East
• Gaza Strip
• Arab people
• Antisemitism
• Hamas
• Palestine
• Apartheid
• LAW
• General
• PLO
• International
• IDF
• Fatah
• Obermodern-Zutzendorf
• Benyamin Netanyahou
• Guerre de Palestine de 1948
• Knesset
• Paix
• 1967
• 1948

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 juillet 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781786801142
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Palestine-Israel Conflict
The Palestine-Israel Conflict
A Basic Introduction
Fourth Edition
Gregory Harms with Todd M. Ferry
First published 2005
Fourth edition published 2017 by Pluto Press
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Copyright Gregory Harms and Todd M. Ferry 2005, 2008, 2012, 2017
The right of Gregory Harms and Todd M. Ferry to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Introduction
Part I: Regional History
1 Canaan-Palestine: Ancient History by Todd M. Ferry
2 Muhammad, Islam, and the Arab Empire
3 The Crusades to the Ottoman Empire
Part II: Origins
4 Jewish Persecution and Zionism
5 Palestine
6 The Genesis of Conflict: Across Two World Wars
Part III: Conflict
7 Partition, Israeli Statehood, and the Six-Day War: 1947-1967
8 The Continuation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1967-Lebanon 1982
9 The First Intifada and the Peace Process
10 The Second Intifada, Gaza, and the Obama Years: 2000-2016
Conclusion
Appendices
1 Chronology
2 Israel s Prime Ministers
3 General Data: Israel, Palestine
Notes
Suggested Reading
Select Bibliography
Index
Maps
1 The Middle East, Southwest and Central Asia
2 UNGA Partition Plan, 1947 (UN 181) and Armistice Lines, 1949
3 Post-June 1967 War: Territories occupied by Israel
4 Oslo II, 1995
5 Projection of the West Bank Final Status Map presented by Israel, Camp David II, July 2000
6 Fragmentation of the West Bank (June 2007)
Maps 2-5 courtesy of PASSIA. Map 6 courtesy of UN-OCHA.
Acknowledgments
From the First Edition
I would like to offer profound thanks to: Scott Darley, Ben Nowicki, Shawn Mitchell, Annie Higgins, Jeffrey Ball (Dove Booksellers), Shany Shlomo, Lahan Sarid, Ali Abu Shawish, Naim Toubassi, Zaid Alayobi, Ryan Robinson, Jerilyn Tabor, Michael Pugh, Alfonso Flores V, Clement Cherian, Jan Larsen (the Herald News ), and George David Miller. Many thanks are owed to Alex Lubertozzi and Jennifer Fusco at Prologue Publishing for much-needed direction and guidance. To Roger van Zwanenberg, Julie Stoll, David Castle, Robert Webb, Matthew Seal, and everyone at Pluto Press I am thankful for realizing this project. I am grateful to Professor Arthur Goldschmidt Jr and Professor Charles D. Smith for their availability, honesty, and advice. I am indebted to my mother, Martha Harms, and George Savich for their early and much-needed help. Grant and Genevieve Harms (both of whom passed during the writing of this book, and a second dedication would go to them), and my father, Joseph, and Diana Harms all provided me with humbling support and hospitality at the farm.
I am grateful for immediate and unbending support of this project to Mark Eleveld, who upon my initial consideration of the idea firmly encouraged me to get started. Special thanks go to my friend and colleague, Todd Ferry, who thoughtfully came along at the right time and whose knowledge and expertise made a superb contribution to this book. Vikram Sura, who I met in Jerusalem, has been a tremendous source of support and counsel ever since. For innumerable reasons I am indebted to Michael Slager, countless conversations with whom have sharpened my thinking on all manner of subjects (thanks, Michael). I owe an impossible amount of gratitude to Tom Jasper for his selfless generosity and encouraging fireside chats (and to Givon and Madison Jasper for helpin their Uncle G).
Lastly, I am grateful to the people in Israel and Palestine who, far too numerous to list here, showed me hospitality, friendship, and openness during my time spent researching there in June 2002. It is in these qualities and people that their leaders can - and must - find an exemplar.
All those noted above contributed to this project in a multitude of ways, the sum total of which made this possible. For the existence of this book they have an equal share in its arrival; for the contents and any errors therein, I alone am responsible.
Gregory Harms
Preface to the Fourth Edition

Who s fighting and what for?
Mick Jagger, Altamont Raceway, 1969
The Palestine-Israel conflict is a fixture in news media the world over. And though taking place on a very small area of land, the tensions between Israel and Palestine send shockwaves around the globe. The conflict spanned most of the previous century and all of the present one so far. It has been documented, recorded, and analyzed in meticulous scholarly detail. We know well the history and its multitude of moving parts.
Yet, confusion persists, as do polarity and controversy. Especially in the United States, there exists a bewilderment and a tendency to deal in fallacies, fictions, and mythology. Oftentimes, in reaction to the news or conversations about the conflict, you might hear people make remarks such as: Those people have been fighting for thousands of years. Or: They re fighting because one guy s ancestors killed the other s. Or: It has to do with religion and goes back to the Bible. Given the manner in which the conflict is packaged by the media - as a perpetual tallying of death and violence with no historical context - it is not surprising that many commonly make such judgments. But as with many things, what actually lies beneath the received imagery is quite different from the surface we are shown. This book attempts to provide what the news doesn t.
When I first set to working on the first edition of this book in late 2001, it was in response to two issues: Firstly, I had for years been confused with the utter lack of introductory material on the Palestine-Israel conflict. There was, of course, an abundance of books on the subject, but they were either big, specialized, or both; for such a topical and important issue, people had precious little to choose from if they wanted to get a 101 sense of the basics. Secondly, and more specifically, the September 11 attacks brought matters of the Middle East much closer to home. Not that this necessarily made them more important, but the experience was a stimulus in my decision making. Shortly after that Tuesday morning, I started assembling this project.
In producing the book I could never find I merely had to take stock of what was not being made available to readers and the news-watching public, namely: an introduction to the entire history of Canaan-Palestine-Israel, from the Paleolithic period to the present day. As a result, the first half of this book has almost nothing to do with the conflict directly; but a basic knowledge of the region s deep history is crucial to understanding and demythologizing the conflict. Naturally, the best way to dispel any myth is to present the facts that undermine it, and therefore the ancient history is covered in this book to demonstrate that those people have not been fighting for thousands of years.
The book is broken up into three main sections. Part I addresses the background history of the region from the dawn of humankind to the final moments of the Ottoman Empire (early 1900s). Part II introduces the people involved in the conflict: the Palestinians and the European Jews who founded Zionism and eventually established the state of Israel. Part III discusses the actual conflict, from its earliest moments onward through to the current situation.
No prior knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader. Moreover, questions I have repeatedly encountered at lectures have given me a base for what the reader might be wondering: What is the West Bank? Is (or was) Palestine a country? Is religion a factor? What is Zionism? Were the Jews or Arabs there first? I have tried to clarify these, while endeavoring to anticipate further curiosities and possible confusion. However, if I have overlooked something that you were hoping to have answered, or a topic I have discussed remains muddled, please tell me about it: [e-mail] .
A word about balance and objectivity. The topic of Palestine-Israel generates suspicion about bias like none other. Accusations fly and tempers can flare over the slightest indication of a person or piece of writing leaning one way or the other: so-and-so is pro-Israeli , such-and-such a book is pro-Palestinian . For you the reader, I suggest making every effort to keep an open mind, avoid this trap of polarity, and read critically, starting with this book. The conflict is not a sporting event where people pick a side and root accordingly (though many do). It is a political conflict over which life is lost. As someone who is maybe new to the conflict, try to examine the history and come to an understanding of what is at stake, what the key issues are, and what could be done about it. Objectivity is a word that has practically lost its meaning, and has frequently come to mean imposing symmetry where things are not necessarily symmetrical, thus distorting the actual situation. I have sought to present the history of the conflict clearly and impartially. Regardless, however, of my efforts at handling sources critically and writing with caution, the reader will ultimately be the judge of my success.
I hope this new edition will continue to serve the needs