The Origins and Evolution of the Arab-Zionist ConflictHere is a brief, intelligent, even-handed analytical account of the origins of the Arab-Zionist conflict and its development from early in the twentieth century until 1948, focusing particularly on the period when Britain ruled Palestine under mandate from the League of Nations. |
Contents
Arab Nationalism and British Promises of Independence During World War I | 1 |
Husayn and the Arab National Movement | 9 |
The HusaynMcMahon Correspondence July 1915January 1916 | 14 |
The British Promise 24 October 1915 | 18 |
A Summary Evaluation of the Correspondence | 24 |
Zionism and the Balfour Declaration | 29 |
Political Zionism | 32 |
The Balfour Declaration | 41 |
The Arab Rebellion | 90 |
The 1939 White Paper and World War II | 93 |
From Mandate to Independence 19451948 | 106 |
The Search for an AngloAmerican Consensus | 107 |
Zionist Rebellion | 112 |
Arab Disarray | 117 |
The British Decision to Surrender the Mandate | 120 |
The UN Partition Resolution November 1947 | 125 |
The Drafting and Significance of the Declaration | 50 |
The Balfour Declaration Assessed and Compared with the HusaynMcMahon Correspondence | 54 |
Mandatory Problems 19201945 | 58 |
Britains Quest for Legitimacy | 63 |
Political and Socioeconomic Upheaval | 67 |
The Zionists Progress | 78 |
Crossroads in the 1930s | 84 |
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References to this book
Mandated Landscape: British Imperial Rule in Palestine 1929-1948 Roza El-Eini No preview available - 2004 |
State Lands and Rural Development in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1948 Warwick P. N. Tyler No preview available - 2001 |