The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Alisa Douer

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Alisa Douer, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2015), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832587932

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Beschreibung / Abstract

We should not argue about who is to blame [for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict].There is enough guilt on both sides. / Uri Avneri

Smoldering since the late 1920s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached its first climax immediately after the State of Israel was founded on May 15, 1948. Devised by European nations as the``perfect solution'', the new state received a large number of displaced Jews who were unwelcome in their countries of origin.

We can only answer a few of the myriad yet unasked questions. What we know for sure is that more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled or escaped from Israel/Palestine after 1948. About 470,000 of them fled to refugee camps in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. The rest scattered all over the world. Deprived of citizenship and human rights, Palestinians have remained refugees in most of the Arab world until this day. Why?

By 2013, more than 150 settlements and towns populated by more than half a million Jews had been built on confiscated land on the West Bank. Even moderate Palestinian leaders consider these confiscations a provocation. Israel is increasingly turning into an apartheid state and its political standing is constantly deteriorating. The Israeli intellectual elite has always raised its voice against the occupation and the settlements, arguing that human rights and equality—two pillars of Zionism—are being violated.

Time has come for the voice of reason, which calls for a two-state solution, to be heard.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • BEGINN
  • Personal note
  • Note of Thanks
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Geography
  • Origins
  • Etymology
  • Exegesis
  • Historic Rights: Bible and Qur†™an
  • The Bible
  • The Qur†™an
  • Result
  • Ties to the country
  • Erez Israel
  • Characteristics of the Israeli-Jewish society
  • The 19th Century
  • The Middle East from 1918 onward
  • Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952)
  • Zeev Jabotinsky (1880-1940)
  • The British Mandate in Palestine 1918-1948
  • Arab Nationalism
  • Rights to the Land
  • After the British Mandate
  • Land of the Fathers
  • Zionism
  • “Aliyah††”Immigration (to Israel)
  • First Aliyah
  • Second Aliyah
  • Third Aliyah
  • Fourth Aliyah
  • 1929-1939, historical Background
  • First Arab Revolts 1929
  • The big Arab Revolt of 1936-1939
  • Fifth Aliyah
  • Aliyat ha-No†™ar - Youth Aliyah
  • British Commissions and Resolutions 1937-1939
  • Aliyah Bet - Ha†™apala
  • 1939 to 1947
  • After World War II, 1945
  • The Partition Plan of 1947
  • The Jewish Point of View
  • The Arab Point of View
  • The Partition
  • Map of the Partition Plan 1947
  • Civil War: November 1947 to May 1948
  • Fleeing from Palestine
  • Pre-war Period
  • Arab Countries Against Israel
  • Identity
  • The war of 1948, Five Arab Countries Attack Israel
  • The Yishuv during the War
  • After the War of 1948
  • Occupied Territories
  • Demography
  • The Aftermath, the Refugees; Who is a Refugee?
  • Palestinian Refugees in Arab countries
  • Israeli Arabs
  • Palestinians outside the Middle East
  • Jewish Refugees
  • Why Palestinians Remain Refugees
  • Israel is Blamed
  • Refugees and Absentees
  • Religious Groups
  • Trying to Solve the Palestinian Problem
  • After May 15, 1948
  • Map of the Region After the War of 1948
  • The Arab Neighbors
  • A Palestinian State
  • The Arab Trauma
  • Martial Law
  • The Suez/Sinai War 1956
  • Conflicting Interests
  • The Palestinian Problem
  • Israelis and Palestinians, Differences and Similarities
  • A Middle East Conflict
  • The Six-Day War, 1967
  • Opinions After the War
  • Demography After 1967
  • After the War of 1967
  • Settlement Ideology
  • Opinions
  • The Birth of Palestine
  • Nobody Wants the Territories
  • The Pre-War Period, 1972
  • Yom-Kippur War, 1973
  • Israel in Lebanon, 1982
  • Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995)
  • Yasser Arafat (1929-2004)
  • Political Movements and Palestinian Organizations
  • Overview
  • Fatah
  • Hamas
  • Hamas and Islamic-Jihad
  • Hezbollah
  • Characteristics of the Political Movements in Palestine
  • Intifada
  • The Intifada of 1987
  • The Intifada of 2000
  • Places of Refuge
  • The Arab Countries
  • Refuge outside the Middle East
  • The Right to Return
  • Palestinian Education
  • List of Universities and High Schools in the Occupied Territories
  • Israelis and Arabs
  • What Do Israelis and Palestinians Want
  • Religion as Handicap
  • The Religious Aspect
  • Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians
  • Israelis and Palestinians
  • Palestine
  • The Middle East
  • The Curse of the Status Quo
  • Israel and the Arab world
  • Peace Talks
  • Benyamin Netanyahu (*1949)
  • Ehud Barak (*1942)
  • Ariel Sharon (*1928)
  • First Free Elections in the Territories 2006
  • Mutual Recognition
  • Support from Abroad
  • For Israel
  • For Palestine
  • Fear and Suspicion
  • Partnership
  • The Dreams, the Wishes
  • Secure Borders
  • Common Borders:
  • Terror
  • The Winners
  • Israeli Society
  • Comparison
  • Returning the Occupied Territories
  • “Normal Relationships†
  • Press and Literature of the Middle East
  • Israeli Press
  • Press in the Occupied Territories
  • Israeli Courts
  • Ethics and Sovereignty
  • Interviews
  • Opinions
  • Haaretz – Israeli Newspaper articles and essays
  • “Mosab, Son of Hamas†
  • Conclusion
  • The Arab Point of View
  • The Israeli–Palestinian Situation
  • The Israeli–Palestinian Points of View
  • The Entire Land, a Fixed Idea
  • Returning Territories
  • Everybody is Guilty
  • A Possible Solution
  • Is a Solution Possible?
  • Foot Notes
  • Selected bibliography

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