Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Stewart.

Series:

Teach Yourself Educational

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Hodder Education, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is a balanced account of one of the most tragic and controversial situations in the modern world.

Contents:

Cover; Book title; Contents; Note from the author; Only got a minute?; Only got five minutes?; Only got ten minutes?; 1 Biblical beginnings 2500 BC to the nineteenth century; Philistines and Jews; Conquest, Christianity and Islam; The Palestinian battlefield; The land of faith; Toleration and conflict; 2 Whose land? c. 1815 to 1918; Nineteenth-century Palestine; Zionism; Conflicting nationalisms; The impact of war; 3 The mandate 1919 to 1945; Peace-making; Breakdown; Mission impossible; World War II; 4 Israel 1945 to 1949; The dying mandate; Enter the UN; War; Palestine destroyed

5 Battle lines 1949 to early 1950sThe winners...; ... and the losers; Impact of war; 6 The second round and its aftermath 1949 to c. 1964; Israel and its neighbours; Suez; Israel after Suez; The 11-year peace; 7 The Six-Day War 1965 to 1967; Palestinian dead end; The path to war; The Six-Day War; After the war; 8 Arafat and the PLO 1968 to 1973; Where now?; Between the wars; The October War; 9 Peace from war 1974 to 1979; Possibilities for peace; Israel turns right; The quest for peace; Camp David; 10 Lebanon 1970 to c. 1985; The compromise state; Israel, Likud and the Occupied Territories

Invasion of LebanonSearching for peace; 11 Intifada early 1980s to 1993; The forgotten people; Intifada; Cold war and hot war; The peace process; 12 Oslo and after 1993 to 1998; Oslo; Accord and discord; Netanyahu, Arafat and Clinton; 13 Terror 1999 to 2004; To solve the unsolvable; Sharon and the Second Intifada; Peace on our terms; Arafat sidelined; The Roadmap; 14 Fresh hopes, old problems 2005 to 2010; After Arafat; Descent into chaos; The shattered picture; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z; Taking it further; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I

JK; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-95782-1

9786612957826

1-4441-2738-1

OCLC:

701704494