Zionism and the Arabs, 1936-1939 (RLE Israel and Palestine)

by Ian Black

Overview

In this work, first published in 1986, the author shows how the Zionists of the late Thirties related to the Arabs of Palestine and of the neighbouring countries, to what extent they perceived the existence of an ‘Arab Question’, how they defined it and how they dealt with it. The Arab question is as old as the Zionist movement itself. From the moment that Zionists began to immigrate to Ottoman Palestine in the last decades of the nineteenth century, it became apparent that they were not ‘returning’ to an empty land and that they could expect opposition to their enterprise from the inhabitants of the country they considered theirs. Comprising diplomatic, political, social, economic and cultural history, this book is a close analysis of the spectrum of views and opinions pertaining to Zionist relations with the Arabs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138906358
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/18/2015
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Israel and Palestine , #15
Pages:	442
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ian Black

Table of Contents

1. The Zionist Movement, the Yishuv and the Arab Strike (April to October 1936) 2. The Arab Question, Negotiations and the ‘Nationalisation of the Soul’ 3. Zionism and Transjordan 4. Zionism and Pan-Arabism: A ‘Jewish Agency Version’? 5. Zionism and the Arab World 6. ‘My Enemy’s Enemy is My Friend’: Zionists and Maronites 7. ‘My Enemy’s Enemy is My Friend: Zionists, Turks and Druze 8. Havlaga, the Arab Opposition and the London Conference