Enemies and neighbors, Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017, Ian Black
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Label
Enemies and neighbors, Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017, Ian Black
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-562) and index
Illustrations
platesmapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Enemies and neighbors
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1005742371
Responsibility statement
Ian Black
Sub title
Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
Summary
"In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent four decades studying and covering the Middle East, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today, published on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration and fifty years after the Six-Day War. Setting the scene in the final decades of the 19th century, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Ottoman-ruled Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources--from declassified documents to oral testimonies to his own vivid on-the-ground reporting--to recreate major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of modern times. In the third year of World War I, the seed was planted for an inevitable clash as British troops entered Jerusalem after Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour made a fateful promise to favor the establishment of 'a national home for the Jewish people' in Palestine--without consulting its Arab majority. The story, told from both sides, proceeds through the Arab rebellion of the 1950s, the Nazi Holocaust, the war of 1948, Israel's independence and the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe). It focuses on the watershed of 1967, followed by the Palestinian re-awakening, Israel's settlement project, two Intifadas, the Oslo Accords, and other failed peace negotiations and continued violence up to 2017. Combining engaging narrative with political analysis and social and cultural insights, Enemies and Neighbors is both an accessible overview and a fascinating investigation into the deeper truths of a furiously contested history that has preserved Palestinians and Israelis as unequal enemies and neighbors, their conflict raw and unresolved as prospects for a two-state solution have all but disappeared."--Dust jacket flaps