Mark Tessler's timely, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from earliest times to the present provides a constructive framework for thinking realistically about the prospects for peace. Drawing upon a wide array of documents and on research by Palestinians, Israelis, and others, Tessler assesses the conflict on both the Israelis' and the Palestinians' terms.
Part I treats the early history of Jews and Arabs before there was a conflict in Palestine and traces the congruent origins of modern Zionism and Arab nationalism. Part II examines the emergence and history of the conflict from the early twentieth century to Israeli independence in 1948. Part III analyzes the issues that shaped the conflict from 1948 until the June 1967 war, including debates about the legitimacy of Israel and about the origins and consequences of the Palestinian exodus. Renewed attention to the Palestinian question after 1967 is the major focus of Part IV, which covers the period through the Camp David negotiations of the late 1970s. Part V examines the military and political confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians in the 1980s - including the war in Lebanon and the intifada - and the beginning of peace negotiations in the early 1990s.
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