Palestinian refugees after 1948 : the failure of international diplomacy / Marte Heian-Engdal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heian-Engdal, Marte, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees, Palestinian Arab.

Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Government policy.

Palestine--Foreign relations.

Palestine.

Israel--Foreign relations.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 210 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"After more than seventy years, the Palestinian refugee problem remains unsolved. But if a deal could have been reached involving the repatriation of Palestinian refugees, it was in the early years of the Arab-Israeli conflict. So why didn't this happen? This book is the first comprehensive study of the international community's earliest efforts to solve the Palestinian refugee problem. Based on a wide range of international primary sources from Israeli, US, UK and UN archives, the book investigates the major proposals between 1948 and 1968 and explains why these failed. It shows that the main actors involved - the Arab states, Israel, the US and the UN - agreed on very little when it came to the Palestinian refugees and therefore never got seriously engaged in finding a solution. This new analysis highlights how the international community gradually moved from viewing the Palestinian refugee problem as a political issue to looking at it as a humanitarian one. It examines the impact of this development and the changes that took place in this formative period of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well as the limited influence US policy makers had over Israel."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Palestinian refugee issue: At the core of the conflict; Structure and content of the book; Chapter 2: From principles to practicalities: Repatriation versus resettlement; The Palestine Conciliation Commission: Early days, lost chances; Chasing an Israeli gesture; An offer everyone could refuse: The Gaza Plan and the 100,000 offer; Chapter 3: A beautiful dream: The rise and fall of Project Alpha; Establishing the Alpha Plan; Resettlement and repatriation in the Alpha Plan.

Securing regional acceptance of the Alpha PlanAllied discord over Alpha; Chapter 4: The United States and the Palestinian refugee issue; The Villard study; Regional turmoil and internal US division; The United States' limited influence; Regional shake-up and the revival of the PCC; Chapter 5: The Johnson mission: A real college try?; A time for greatness?; The Johnson mission; Getting to concretes: Johnson's second trip to the region; Chapter 6: Kennedy and the Arab-Israeli conflict; Domestic dimensions: Ensuring presidential support; Presenting the Johnson plan to the parties.

Kennedy and the question of PalestineChapter 7: The end of the road for the Johnson mission; US-Israel bilateral negotiations: The Harman-Talbot talks; A tug of war in Washington, D.C.; A bitter representative and a special relationship; Chapter 8: The 1967 War: Changed parameters of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Land for peace and the Palestinian national movement; US Palestine policy readjusted?; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Edited Archival records; Interviews/oral sources; Official documents/reports.

Newspaper articlesBooks and journal articles; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755601844

075560184X

9780755601837

0755601831

9780755601820

0755601823

OCLC:

1130899694