The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History [Paperback]

Whether filtered through the media or through the classroom, the Arab-Israeli conflict has become a pervasive--and often misunderstood--subject of our contemporary cultural landscape. In this compelling new edition ofThe Arab-Israeli Conflict, widely respected scholar David W. Lesch presents the most balanced and accessible account of the conflict. Combining narrative history, primary sources, and informative analyses,The Arab-Israeli Conflictenables students to form their own educated opinions about complex and controversial issues.

Maps and Figures
Closer Look
Primary Sources
Preface
Note on the Text

Chapter One: The Intellectual and Physical Setting

Chapter Two: Competing Peoples and Ideologies
Primary Sources
Theodor Herzl: The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat), 1896
Basle Program (August 23,1897)
Negib Azoury: Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland

Chapter Three: The Convergence: World War One and a New Middle East
Primary Sources
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (July 14, 1915-March 10, 1916)
The Sykes-Picot Agreement: 1916
The Balfour Declaration: 1917
British Declaration to Seven Arab Spokesmen
Anglo-French Declaration
Resolutions of the General Syrian Congress (Damascus, July 2, 1919)
Memorandum Presented to the King-Crane Commission by the General Syrian Congress
British White Paper of June 1922

Chapter Four: The Palestine Mandate
Primary Sources
Peel White Paper (Peel Commission)
British White Paper of 1939

Chapter Five: Independence and al-Nakba
Primary Sources
Biltmore Program (May 11, 1942)
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 (111) (December 11, 1948)
Testimony on Palestinian Arab Reaction to the UNSCOP Proposals to the UN Ad Hoc Committee on tl³°