Neil Caplan 
The Israel-Palestine Conflict [EPUB ebook] 
Contested Histories

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides
non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview
of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the
still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

* Provides a fresh attempt to break away from polemical
approaches that have undermined academic discussion and political
debates

* Focuses on a series of core arguments that the author considers
essentially unwinnable

* Introduces readers to the major historiographical debates
sparked by the dispute

* Encourages readers to consider more useful ways of explaining
and understanding the conflict, and to go beyond trying to prove
who is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’

‘This volume suggests a fresh and original interpretation to the
history of the Arab Israeli conflict. Caplan juggles skillfully and
even-handedly between the two narratives, reflecting the
parties’ own views without embracing the cause of any
party.’

-Joseph Nevo, University of Haifa

‘An impressive and very valuable work. One could not ask for a
better short history of the conflict. Caplan offers readers a study
that is extremely well-informed, resolutely fair-minded, and filled
with thoughtful insights.’

-Mark Tessler, University of Michigan

Tabela de Conteúdo

List of Maps.

Preface.

Chronology.

Part I Introduction.

1. Problems in Defining the Conflict.

2. Defining the Conflict, Nevertheless.

Part II Histories in Contention.

3. Background to 1917: Origins of Conflict.

4. Arabs and Jews under the British Mandate: Entrenching
Positions, 1917-1928.

5. Collapse of the Mandate: Rebellion, Partition, White Paper,
1929-1939.

6. Shoah, Atzma’ut, Nakba: 1939-1949.

7. Israel and the Arab States, 1949-1973.

8. Back to the Core: Israel and the Palestinians.

9. From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon.

10. From Boycott to Mutual Recognition, 1982-2008.

Part III Towards a More Useful Discussion of the
Arab-Israeli Conflict.

11. Writing about the Conflict.

12. Confronting the Obstacles.

Bibliography.

Index

Sobre o autor

A native of Montreal, Neil Caplan received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since retiring from teaching in 2008 he has held an affiliate position in the History Department of Concordia University and is Scholar-in-Residence at Vanier College, both in Montreal. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and eight books, including Futile Diplomacy, a 4-volume documentary history of Zionist-Arab and Arab-Israeli negotiations, 1913-1956 and (with Laura Z. Eisenberg) Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities. His most recent publication is My Struggle for Peace: The Diary of Moshe Sharett, 1953-1956, co-edited with Yaakov Sharett.