Palestine-Israel Conflict, Second Edition A Basic Introduction

Name: Palestine-Israel Conflict, Second Edition A Basic Introduction
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ISBN: 9780745327341

ISBN-10: 0745327346

ISBN-13: 9780745327341

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Gregory Harms, Todd Ferry, Todd M. Ferry

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"This superior and remarkably thorough study of the Holy Land enigma is strongly recommended as an introduction." ---Choice "An indispensable, basic introduction. ... There is no better single volume." ---Gabriel Kolko, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto and author ofAnother Century of War? "Gregory Harms has taken an enormously complex issue and made it engagingly accessible. An intelligent, thoughtful and comprehensive introduction to a terribly and consistently misunderstood conflict." ---Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, and author ofFailing Peace The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 3/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Gregory Harms is an independent scholar based in Chicago. He is the author of Straight Power Concepts in the Middle East: US Foreign Policy, Israel and World History (Pluto, 2010).



Acknowledgements


Preface to the Second edition


Introduction



Background History



Ancient History: Canaan-Palestine



From the First Foot Falls to Rome



Muhammad, Islam, and The Arab Empire



The Crusades to the Ottoman Empire



Pre-Conflict



Jewish Persecution and Zionism



Palestine



WWI to WWII


The Genesis of Conflict



Conflict



1947-1967


Conflict: Partition, Statehood, and the Six-Day War



The 1970s to Lebanon 1982


The Continuation of the