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The Israel/Palestine reader / Alan Dowty, editor.

Van Pelt Library DS119.7 .D695 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dowty, Alan, 1940- author.
Contributor:
Dowty, Alan, 1940- editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Arab-Israeli conflict--History--Sources.
Jewish-Arab relations--History--Sources.
Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government--Sources.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Jewish-Arab relations.
Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government.
History.
Genre:
History.
Sources.
Physical Description:
ix, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2019.
Summary:
From Mark Twain to Theodor Herzl, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Golda Meir, Anwar Sadat, Ezer Weizman, Ehud Barak, Marwan Barghouti, Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, John Kerry, and dozens of others, the first-hand narratives brought together in this Reader bring the conflict to life as seen by those closest to it.
Contents:
Introduction: two worlds collide
What is a nation? / Ernest Renan
Innocents abroad / Mark Twain
Nu'man al-Qasatli's Travels in Palestine / Abdul-Karim Rafeq
The Jewish story
Two poems / Yehuda Halevi
Bilu manifesto, 1882
The Jewish state / Theodor Herzl
On the slaughter / Chaim Nachman Bialik
A hidden question / Yitzhak Epstein
Open questions / Nehama Pukhachewsky
The Arab story
References to Jews in the Quran
On the Franks / Nehama Pukhachewsky
The Arab awakening / George Antonius
The awakening of the Arab nation / Najib Azuri
My view of Zionism / Khalil as-Sakakini
The emergence of Israel
The iron wall / Vladimir Jabotinsky
The Arab case for Palestine / Hamid Frangieh
We have our state / Golda Meir
Memoirs of the first Palestine war / Gamal Abdul Nasser
War is inevitable
why? / Gamal Abdul Nasser
Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, May 26, 1967
The re-emergence of the Palestinians
Identity card / Mahmoud Darwish
An olive branch and a gun / Yasir Arafat
The road to peace / Anwar Sadat
The 1978 negotiations at Camp David / Ezer Weizman
The road to Oslo / Mahmoud Abbas
The first pass at peace
The Palestinians' fourteen demands / Sari Nusseibeh
The Oslo accord / Yossi Beilin
The Oslo accord / Mahmoud Abbas
Collapse at Camp David / Ehud Barak
Collapse at Camp David / Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
The fourth stage
Hamas covenant (1988)
The second Intifada / Marwan Barghouti
The Intifada : Israel government white paper
Palestine papers : Olmert's offer to Abu Mazen
My offer to Abbas / Ehud Olmert
Conditions for a two-state solution / Benjamin Netanyahu
The downward spiral
Recognize Palestine as a UN member-state / Mahmoud Abbas
Collapse of Kerry initiative / Martin Indyk
2014 Gaza war : Palestinian view / Diana Buttu
2014 Gaza war : Israeli view / Benjamin Netanyahu
Saving the two-state solution / John Kerry
The impasse that remains
Territorial issues / Michael Herzog
West Bank settlements : a Palestinian view / Walid Salem
West Bank settlements : an Israeli view / Hillel Halkin
The refugee issue : a Palestinian view / Rashid Khalidi
The refugee issue : an Israeli view / Efraim Karsh
The perfect conflict
The one-state solution : a Palestinian version / Ghada Karmi
The one-state solution : an Israeli version / Naftali Bennett
The two-state solution / David C. Unger
Linking justice to peace / Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Dowty, Alan, 1940- IsraelPalestine reader.
ISBN:
9781509527335
1509527338
9781509527342
1509527346
OCLC:
1030765970
Publisher Number:
99979825944

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