The Origins and Evolution of the Arab-Zionist Conflict

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University of California Press, Apr 14, 1989 - History - 200 pages
Here 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.
 

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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
The Establishment of the State of Israel
127
Documents
133
Glossary
165
Suggested Reading
167
Index
173
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Michael J. Cohen is Professor of History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His most recent book is Churchill and the Jews.

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