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Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews » (New Edition)

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Authors: Ann M. Lesch (Editor), Ian S. Lustick
ISBN-13: 9780812238747, ISBN-10: 0812238745
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Ann M. Lesch

Ann M. Lesch is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at American University in Cairo. Ian S. Lustick is Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Book Synopsis

The Israeli, Palestinian, and American contributors to this volume consider the catastrophic failure of the Oslo peace process and the years of bloody violence that ensued.

Table of Contents

1The failure of Oslo and the abiding question of the refugees3
2Commemorating contested lands19
3The right of return versus the law of return : contrasting historical narratives in Israeli and Palestinian school textbooks41
4Social capital and refugee repatriation : a study of economic and social transnational kinship networks in Palestine/Israel57
5Considerations toward accepting historical responsibility85
6Negotiating truth : the Holocaust, Lehavdil, and al-Nakba106
7The Palestinian IDPs in Israel and the predicament of return : between imagining the impossible and enabling the imaginative133
8No refuge for refugees : the insecure exile of Palestinians in Kuwait161
9The vision of return : reflections on the mass immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union183
10Palestinian and Mizrahi Jewish property claims in discourse and diplomacy207
11Arab Jews, population exchange, and the Palestinian right of return225
12Palestinian refugee property claims : compensation and restitution246
13Truth and reconciliation : the right of return in the context of past injustice261
14The visible and invisible in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict279
15Reflections on the right of return : divisible or indivisible?297

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