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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793873003321

Autore

Haim Yehoyada

Titolo

Abandonment of illusions : Zionist political attitudes toward Palestinian Arab Nationalism, 1936-1939 / / Yehoyada Haim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-05019-4

0-429-69702-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 173 pages)

Collana

A Westview replica edition

Disciplina

956.9404

Soggetti

Zionism - Palestine - History

Palestine History Arab rebellion, 1936-1939

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1983 by Westview Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Zionist Politics and Attitudes on the Eve of the Arab Revolt -- Zionist Responses to the Revolt -- The Royal Commission Inquiry -- Partition and Other Proposed Solutions -- The British Retreat -- Zionist Hopes in Palestine: Illusion and Reality.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the late nineteenth century and especially in times of great tension in the Middle East, observers have asked whether the longstanding Arab-Jewish conflict could have been avoided. The early Zionists did not feel that Arab nationalism would evolve as a reaction to Jewish settlement and the pursuit of Jewish statehood; to the Zionists it seeme