Authors: Yosef Gorny, Aleksander Gorny
ISBN-13: 9780198227212, ISBN-10: 0198227213
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: September 1987
Edition: New Edition
What are the roots of the Jewish-Arab conflict? How has it developed, and why does it still exist? In this intriguing investigation, Yosef Gorney contends that the ideological principles of Zionism were a decisive influence throughout the period when Jewish settlement began in Palestine and the foundations were laid for the re-establishment of Israeli sovereignty. He begins by identifying four basic attitudes of the Jewish settlers and Zionist leaders toward the Arab population before the First World War, and then shows how these attitudes persisted or changed in the face of subsequent political eventsthe Balfour declaration, the tension of the thirties, the Second World War, and the holocaust. Tracing in each period the delicate synthesis between politics and ideology, the book reveals the consistency of ideological principles in Zionist attitudes towards the Arabs, despite rapid changes in their political and historical context.
Introduction | 1 | |
Part I | The Overt Question, 1882-1917 | |
Historical Background | 11 | |
1. | Images and Conceptions of the Founders | 26 |
2. | Ideological Outlooks in Palestine | 40 |
(a) | The Integrative Outlook | 41 |
(b) | The Separatist Outlook | 49 |
(c) | The Liberal Outlook | 57 |
(d) | The Constructive Socialist Outlook | 66 |
Conclusion | 76 | |
Part II | Growing Awareness Of The Conflict 1918-1929 | |
Historical Background | 81 | |
3. | From Liberalism to Nationalism | 96 |
4. | From Integration to Bi-nationalism | 118 |
5. | Constructive Socialism and Jewish-Arab Co-operation | 129 |
(a) | ha-Po'el ha-Tza'ir | 147 |
(b) | ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir | 154 |
6. | From Separatism to 'the Iron Wall' | 156 |
Conclusion | 174 | |
Part III | Confrontation In The Crisis Years 1930-1948 | |
Historical Background | 181 | |
7. | Years of Perplexity, 1929-1935 | 186 |
(a) | Outside the Zionist Consensus | 189 |
(b) | The Search for a Constructive Solution | 201 |
(c) | From 'the Iron Wall' to Separatism | 233 |
8. | Years of Dubiety, 1936-1939 | 243 |
(a) | Introduction | 243 |
(b) | From Hopes of Co-operation to the Need to Compromise | 246 |
(c) | From National Separatism to Political Intransigence | 263 |
9. | The Decisive Years, 1939-1948 | 277 |
(a) | Introduction | 277 |
(b) | The Return to Consensus | 281 |
(c) | From the Arab Question to the Jewish State | 298 |
(d) | From Intransigence to Disregard | 313 |
Afterword | 321 | |
Select Bibliography | 326 | |
Index | 331 |