Spotlight: The Arab-Israeli Conflict Revised Edition

The Arab-Israeli Conflict is more than just a dispute over boundaries. It involves identity, aspirations, legitimacy, and history.

The aim of this book is to examine the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict at these two principal levels: the local and the regional. A third level of analysis focuses on the role of international powers in the modern Middle East generally and on the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular.

Key features, issues, individuals, groups, and events are described and analysed, as well as key forces and ideas that have contributed to change and continuity in the history of the conflict and in attempts to resolve it. Issues concerning historiography are also considered. Questions at the end of each chapter are provided for review and research, and to develop oral and written communication skills.

Contents

• 1 Introduction

Part 1: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1880s to 1947

• 2 Setting the Scene
• 3 The Origins Of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• 4 World War I and the Conflict In Palestine
• 5 Palestine Under British Mandatory Rule 1922 To 1947

Part 2: The Arab-Israeli Conflict 1947 To 2000

• 6 The First Arab-Israeli War 1947 To 1949
• 7 Arab-Israeli Wars 1950 To 1970
• 8 From Hot War To Cold Peace 1973 To 1979
• 9 The PLO, the Arab States and Israel 1967 To 1987
• 10 The First Palestinian Intifada and the Madrid Peace Process 1987 To 1992
• 11 The Peace Process 1993 To 2000
• 12 The 21st Century

• Glossary
• References
• Further Reading
• Index