The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories

Preface.

Chronology.

Part I Introduction.

1. Problems in Defining the Conflict.

2. Defining the Conflict, Nevertheless.

Part II Histories in Contention.

3. Background to 1917: Origins of Conflict.

4. Arabs and Jews under the British Mandate: Entrenching Positions, 1917–1928.

5. Collapse of the Mandate: Rebellion, Partition, White Paper, 1929–1939.

6. Shoah, Atzma’ut, Nakba: 1939–1949.

7. Israel and the Arab States, 1949–1973.

8. Back to the Core: Israel and the Palestinians.

9. From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon.

10. From Boycott to Mutual Recognition, 1982–2008.

Part III Towards a More Useful Discussion of the Arab–Israeli Conflict.

11. Writing about the Conflict.

12. Confronting the Obstacles.

Bibliography.

Index.