Prologue. The Arab-Israeli conflict in historical perspective: the Middle East and Palestine to 1517 -- 1. Ottoman society, Palestine, and the origins of Zionism, 1516-1914 -- 2. World War I, Great Britain, and the peace settlements: deciding Palestine's fate, 1914-1921 -- 3. Palestine between the wars: Zionism, the Palestinian Arabs, and the British Mandate, 1920-1939 -- 4. World War II and the creation of the state of Israel, 1939-1949 -- 5. The beginnings of the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1949-1957 -- 6. From Suez to the Six-Day War, 1957-1967 -- 7. Land, war, and diplomacy: shifting calculations in a Cold War context, 1967-1976 -- 8. Lebanon, the West Bank, and the Camp David accords: the Palestinian equation in the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1977-1984 -- 9. From pariah to partner: the PLO and the quest for peace in global and regional contexts, 1984-1993 -- 10. Israeli-Palestinian/Arab negotiations and agreements, 1993-1999 -- 11. The Oslo process undone: Camp David 2000, Palestinian rebellion/factionalism, and Israeli unilateralims: the American assault on Iraq and its links to Israel's settlement goals, 1999-2009 -- 12. Ideology and domestic politics: Obama, Trump, and the reversal of American policy toward the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, 2009-2020. .
Summary:
"Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible narrative of a complex historical topic. Charles D. Smith examines how underlying issues, group motives, religious and cross-cultural clashes, diplomacy and imperialism, and the arrival of the modern era shaped this volatile region. The narrative is supported by more than 40 primary documents that highlight perspectives from all sides of the struggle, as well as maps, photographs, chronologies, public opinion polls, and discussion questions. A new chapter 12 covers the Obama administration's peace efforts with Israel and Iran, as well as the Trump administration's reactions to current events in the Middle East."--Cover.
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