The Israel/Palestine Question (Rewriting Histories) (Paperback)

~ Ilan Pappe (Author) "This reader focuses on the history of the Palestine Question which is at the heart of the Arab-Israel conflict..." (more)
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...a more nuanced view of the power struggle between Palestinian Arabs and Jewish Israelis than any previous history of the conflict. Challenging the nationalist paradigms of both sides, it will lay the groundwork for future studies in Israeli and Palestinian history....
–Arthur Goldschmidt, Penn State University

A fascinating volume, which casts new light on the history of Israel/Palestine, and which demostrates the possibility of cooperation and constructive dialogue between Isreli and Palestinian scholars. - Outsider, The Newsletter of Minority Rights Group International

a useful collection that offers a glimpse into one of the most collateral processes occurring simultaneously with the intifada and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
– Journal of Palestine Studies

Product Description

An explicitly revisionist collection that takes the ground away from pro-Israeli historians and suggests a far more nuanced view of the issue, The Israel/Palestine Question assimilates diverse interpretations of the origins of the Middle East conflict with emphasis on the fight for Palestine and its religious and political roots. Drawing largely on scholarly debates in Israel during the last two decades, which have become known as `historical revisionism,' the collection presents the most recent developments in the historiography of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a critical reassessment of Israel's past. The volume commences with an overview of Palestinian history and the origins of modern Palestine, and includes essays on the early Zionist movement, the 1948 war, international influences on the conflict and the Intifada.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (March 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415169488
• ISBN-13: 978-0415169486
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,079,050 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Au Contraire! , August 3, 2006

By	Feridoun "Feridoun" (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Israel/Palestine Question (Rewriting Histories) (Hardcover)

I strongly recommend this book for all who approach life with open mind and the heart of a student. I suspect the "Shalom Freedom" commentator does not fall under that category.

There is an old Middle-Eastern saying: "One can learn a lot about a person by looking at his enemies." If Ilan Pappe's work is attacked because it takes a far more nuanced view of the bloody conflict between Palestinians and Israel, then that reason by itself warrants the study of its content. After reading this book, I wonder if some Israelies would still be so dismissive of political equality for Palestinians if it was the Palestinians who had the guns and the military might that Israel enjoys today. Please read this book even if you have already made up your mind about what you think it proposes.

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1.0 out of 5 stars How low can you go, February 17, 2006

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

The editor of this volume Ilan Pappe has devoted his academic career to deligitimizing the state in which he lives and works. He has slandered Israel at every possible opportunity, always denying and covering up the basic truth that the source of the conflict between Israelis and Arabs has always been the refusal of the Arabs to live in peace with a Jewish state, even in a small part of the Holy Land. Pappe ignores the daily propaganda of the Palestinians, the hatefilled rhetoric that has accompanied the conflict from its outset. Even more importantly
all his retellings ignore the part the Palestinians, and the Arab states have played in initiating aggression against Israel.
Pappe is a low- grade propagandist and Benedict Arnold.
Who reads him reads misinformation only.